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During the development of the MUSICAM encoding software, Stoll and Dehery's team made thorough use of a set of high-quality audio assessment material<ref>{{cite book | url = https://tech.ebu.ch/publications/sqamcd | title = EBU SQAM CD Sound Quality Assessment Material recordings for subjective tests | date = 2008-10-07 }}</ref> selected by a group of audio professionals from the European Broadcasting Union, and later used as a reference for the assessment of music compression codecs. The subband coding technique was found to be efficient, not only for the perceptual coding of high-quality sound materials but especially for the encoding of critical percussive sound materials (drums, [[triangle (musical instrument)|triangle]],...), due to the specific temporal masking effect of the MUSICAM sub-band filterbank (this advantage being a specific feature of short transform coding techniques).
As a doctoral student at Germany's [[University of Erlangen-Nuremberg]], [[Karlheinz Brandenburg]] began working on digital music compression in the early 1980s, focusing on how people perceive music. He completed his doctoral work in 1989.<ref name="BusinessWeek_2007" /> MP3 is directly descended from OCF and PXFM, representing the outcome of the collaboration of Brandenburg — working as a postdoctoral researcher at AT&T-Bell Labs with James D. Johnston ("JJ") of AT&T-Bell Labs — with the [[Fraunhofer Society|Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits]], Erlangen (where he worked with [[Bernhard Grill]] and four other researchers – "The Original Six"<ref>{{Cite book|title=How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy|last=Witt|first=Stephen|publisher=Penguin Books|year=2016|isbn=978-0-14-310934-1|location=United States of America|page=13|quote=Brandenburg and Grill were joined by four other Fraunhofer researchers. Heinz Gerhauser oversaw the institute´s audio research group; [[Harald Popp]] was a hardware specialist; Ernst Eberlein was a signal processing expert; Jurgen Herre was another graduate student whose mathematical prowess rivaled Brandenburg´s own. In later years this group would refer to themselves as "the original six".}}</ref>), with relatively minor contributions from the MP2 branch of psychoacoustic sub-band coders. In 1990, Brandenburg became an assistant professor at Erlangen-Nuremberg. While there, he continued to work on music compression with scientists at the [[Fraunhofer Society]]'s [[Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications|Heinrich Herz Institute]]. In 1993, he joined the staff of Fraunhofer HHI.<ref name="BusinessWeek_2007" /> An acapella version of the song "[[Tom's Diner]]" by [[Suzanne Vega]] was the first song used by
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