An Apple patent (number 7895045) for bitrate constrained variable bitrate audio encoding has appeared at the US Patent & Trademark Office. A hybrid audio encoding technique incorporates both ABR, or ...

Netflix announced today that it's bringing "studio quality" sound to its audiences. The company is increasing its audio bitrate up to 640 kbps on devices that support 5.1 surround sound and up to 768 ...

Using Gspot I get the audio info of an .avi file. Now if the audio is reported as mp3 128kbps and I demux that sound out of it and re-encode it to mp2 at say 256kbps, will that do any good or am I ...

Sky has launched a subscription-music service called Sky Songs, but its streaming-audio bit-rate is much lower than Spotify's free service. The question is, can anyone actually tell the difference? We ...

real-time communication (RTC) apps such as WhatsApp and Messenger, has announced MLow (Meta Low Bitrate), an audio codec that aims to achieve high sound quality at low bitrates for RTC. MLow: Meta's ...

All the way back in 2021, Spotify confirmed that a new tier of its music streaming service with high fidelity audio output ...

If you use YouTube to discover and listen to music, you may no longer be bogged down by the insufficient audio quality. YouTube is preparing for updated audio settings which will open up options for ...

Only last issue in the print magazine of Sound+Image, I was having a whinge about companies and organisations that claim there is such a thing as Hi-Res Audio Wireless. There just isn’t – at least not ...

If you use iTunes or if you buy and download digital music, you’ll have come across a number of terms and abbreviations that describe digital audio files. This alphabet soup can be quite confusing.