Looking for a new stereophonic sound spectacular from your MP3s? Download the Fraunhofer IIS MP3 Surround player, MP3 Surround encoder and the MP3 Stereo eXtended converter. The no-cost eval apps, ...

Building a digital music library used to be a simple matter of inserting a CD into your computer and encoding the songs as MP3 files. Today the process is a little more complicated. iTunes 4.5 and ...

Due to some hard drive problems, I need to rip all my cds again. I'm planning on using 192 or 224 mp3s for this. I know I could use EAC+lame, but I like to use iTunes to organize my music. So just ...

The VS1063 IC can encode an unforeseen multitude of audio formats, from MP3 and OggVorbis to G.711 u-law, G.711 A-law, G.722 and 16-bit PCM. The proprietary MP3 and OggVorbis encoders have been ...

The MP3 audio data compression technology and file format is very popular, but until recently, due to patent issues, audio editing apps could not include MP3 encoding functionality as standard. At the ...

Audio specialist VLSI Solution has unveiled what it claims to be the world's most advanced audio codec chip, designed for a range of consumer and industrial applications. According to the company, the ...

Patent number 5,579,430 does not read like a manifesto for a new music business, but its grant to Germany's Fraunhofer Institute on November 26, 1996, marked ...

i just recently lost tons of my mp3 collection by accident. View image: /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif <BR>i did a disk recovery and i was only able to recover ...

Microsoft is weighing how much support it will offer in its upcoming Windows XP operating system for MP3s, a popular music format that competes with the company's own Windows Media technology. Test ...

Marco Arment, the creator of the Overcast podcast player, has released a public beta of a tool for podcast producers called Forecast. The macOS utility handles encoding of podcasts as MP3 audio files ...

The absolute lowest MP3 bit rate you should consider is 128kbps. This was often referred to as being CD quality, but it's far from being so. This bit rate will allow you to get much more music on to ...