What are the reasons that MPEG Audio is used so widely?
Thanks to its technical merits and excellent audio quality performance, several standardisation bodies include the MPEG Audio standard in their recommendation. ITU-R (International Telecommunication Union) issued in 1994 the recommendation BS.1115, to use MPEG Audio for audio as well as television broadcasting, including contribution, distribution, commentary and emission links. In 1995, DAVIC (Digital Audio Visual Council) specified the use of MPEG Audio for mono and stereo audio signals. ETSI (European Telecommunication Standardisation Institute) included in January 1995 MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 Audio in their Standard on DAB Standard pr ETS 300 401, ‘Radio Broadcasting system; Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) to mobile, portable and fixed receivers’ and later in the ETR 154 on ‘Digital broadcasting systems for television; Implementation guidelines for the use of MPEG-2 systems; Video and audio in satellite and cable broadcasting applications’. ITU-T recommended in 1995 in its recommendatio
