The term lossless is a big one in music streaming right now. Ever since Apple Music rolled out lossless-quality tracks to its subscribers at no extra cost, it forced the hand of all the legacy ...

We’ve all listened to digital music, right? And that means you’ve probably heard of “bitrate” or come across files that have “kbps” at the end. Thing is… what does that mean? What the hell is bitrate?

I'm interested in implementing an audio output for a microcontroller and so I need some really crappy wav files to play with so I can try to PWM them out to a speaker. <BR><BR>So I'm looking to ...

Video files are notorious for hogging storage and stalling uploads. Whether you’re trying to attach a project to an email, free up space on your PC, or prep a video for online sharing, you’ve likely ...

A process is used when music is compressed into MP3 to discard all the sounds a machine thinks the human ear can't audibly perceive, thus vastly reducing the amount of storage needed to hold entire ...

If you stream music (and who doesn't these days) you've obviously come across abbreviations at the end of the audio files. The acronyms reading WAV, FLAC, MP3 and so on, are called audio codecs. You ...

One in a series of articles about getting the best performance out of your investment in HD Radio. In the discussion forum at the amusingly-named GearSlutz.com, there’s a thread from July 2011 with ...

To export Audacity files as MP3s, you just need to use the "Export" option in the program's "File" menu. Older versions of Audacity can't export MP3s natively, and you'll need to install an add-on ...

Windows only: MP3 Quality Modifier makes it easy to lower the bit rate of your audio files, allowing non-audiophiles to fit more of them onto an MP3 player. Lossless formats and high bit rate MP3 ...

We’ve been talking a fair bit about Bluetooth audio lately, mostly because consumers and high-end audio companies are making more noise about it than ever before. Be it wireless headsets, hands-free ...

YouTube is undoubtedly the most popular video engine on the Internet, with its free-to-use model for both creators and viewers. Many artists in the music and video industries have used YouTube as a ...

July 14, 1995: The MP3 file format receives its official name as the new .bit file extension gets changed to .mp3. The technology allows the compression of a standard CD .wav file to one-tenth its ...