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The Release of the First MP3 Player (1998)

    The deployment of the Eiger Labs MP3Man initiated the mass digitization of the global music industry, converting analog audio waves into highly compressed digital data formats, accelerating the need for algorithmic audio sorting and compression techniques.

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