The creation of MP3’s is surprisingly more interesting than I thought it would be. One thing that sparked my interest was that in order for the songs to fit, the redundancy is removed. That aspect caught my attention because it doesn’t mean what I originally thought it did. When I think of redundancy in music I think of the repetition of lyrics and musical themes. But, the redundancy that is removed is on a deeper level, the sounds we don’t even hear. This way, the song sounds exactly the same but is electronically smaller. Another fact that I found interesting was that originally the MP3 was not going to be finalized. Witt describes that, after years of dreaming and hard work, the patten for the MP3 was not approved because of money. Witt described that the idea of something like it had been running through peoples heads since the 70’s and then when Brandenburg had done it, the men in charge didn’t want it.