BetaNews | MP3 Goes 5.1 Channel http://www.betanews.com/article/MP3_Goes_51_Cha... Soon audiophiles may be listening to their music in surround sound thanks to a new standard released by the creators of MP3. Scientists and engineers from Fraunhofer IIS, Thomson and Agere Systems have released an encoder and decoder to the public which they claim produces files half the size of currently released formats and is backwards compatible with standard MP3.
