"In April of 1999, the term "MP3" surpassed "sex" as the most-searched-on term at some of the Internet's top search engines"

"Some argue that the entire history of music is open-source-like, noting that Homer's Iliad and Odyssey were composed collectively over the years by "skilled Greek emcees,""

"While bitrates are a measure of the amount of data stored for every second of audio, samplerates measure the frequency with which the signal is stored, and are measured in kiloHertz, or thousands of samples per second. "

"Regardless of the bitrate of the file, a frame in an MPEG-1 file lasts for 26ms (26/1000 of a second). This works out to around 38fps. If the bitrate is higher, the frame size is simply larger, and vice versa. In addition, the number of samples stored in an MP3 frame is constant, at 1,152 samples per frame."

"Note, however, that no matter how high you set the bitrate, Garth Brooks will still suck lemons. "