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10:19 GMT 11:19 UK MP3 creator speaks out Several albums can be
compressed into MP3 files and burned on a CD    He first began
working on a way of making small sound files some 20 years ago
as part of the doctorate thesis.  "We had dreams from the
start," he told BBC World's ClickOnline.  But he never expected
his work to achieve the popularity or notoriety it has.  "In
1988 somebody asked me what will become of this, and I said it
could just end up in libraries like so many other PhD theses,"
he recalls.  "But it could become something that millions of
people will use, that was the dream."  Discerning ears  Dr
Brandenburg finished his thesis in 1989. But that was just the
start of the story.  Dr Brandenburg My sympathy is always with
the artists and even with the record labels. They should get
paid for the work they do Karlheinz Brandenburg He went on to
join the Fraunhofer Institute,