.mp3
1 claimant
1 primary
0 secondary
unambiguous primary
SWH popularity
Distinct files in the full Software Heritage archive (2026-06-04 export), dated by first appearance, following Desmazières, Di Cosmo, Lorentz (MSR 2025). Case-aggregated. citation.
27.6M
total files
14.7M
first seen 2021–2025 (53.2%)
2021
median year (half its files since)
Case variants in archive: .mp3 (27.5M), .MP3 (65.5K), .Mp3 (1.4K), .mP3 (17) — aggregated above.
Attribution status
This extension is attributed to mp3 as primary by 1 authoritative claim.
Authoritative sources: ✗ Linguist · no claim ✗ Pygments · no claim ✓ Wikidata · Q42591 ✗ Wikipedia · no claim
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Prior manual labels (1)
| Label | Annotator | Status | Evidence (excerpt) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| binary:audio mp3 — ref | @acherm | new | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3 | discuss |
Claimants (1)
Languages that list
.mp3 among their extensions. Strength reflects whether the upstream source treated it as their primary extension.| Language | Source | Strength |
|---|---|---|
| mp3 | wikidata | primary |
Wikidata says… (8)
File formats, image formats, audio codecs and other non-PL
entities that claim
.mp3 on Wikidata
(property P1195) or in the Wikipedia infobox.
Source: data/derived/external_extension_index.csv.
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| Format | Class (Wikidata P31) | Suggested label | MIME | Notes | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MP3 Q42591top match open standard lossy compression format for digital audio | lossy compression; audio file format | binary:audio | audio/mpeg | — | Use as new PL ↗ |
| MPEG-1 Q336284 standard for compression of video and audio | file format | — | video/mpeg; video/x-mpeg; video/mpg; video/x-mpeg2a; audio/mpeg | — | Use as new PL ↗ |
| GoGo encoded MP3 audio (ID3 v2.x tag) Q105853634 file format | file format | — | audio/mpeg3 | — | Use as new PL ↗ |
SWH-mined examples (0)
No archived examples for .mp3 in our local mirror yet.