Mp3h.pl does not host any of the songs displayed on this site. Mp3h.pl ONLY indexes these files which are located on remote servers which neither mp3h.pl nor its affiliates have any connection with / control of / association with. MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is an audio encoding format. It uses a lossy compression algorithm that is designed to greatly reduce the amount of data required to represent the audio recording, yet still sound like a faithful reproduction of the original uncompressed audio to most listeners. It was invented by a team of European engineers at Philips, CCETT (Centre commun detudes de television et telecommunications), IRT and Fraunhofer Society, who worked in the framework of the EUREKA 147 DAB digital radio research program, and it became an ISO/IEC standard in 1991.