Complex sentence: Standalone MP3s didn't have any special method of doing this, so in 1996 Eric Kemp came up with the idea to add a small chunk of data to the audio file, thus solving the problem.
Split into simpler sentences: Standalone MP3s didn't have any special method of doing this. In 1996 Eric Kemp came up with the idea to add a small chunk of data to the audio file, thus solving the problem.