Audio codecs are one of the fundamental building blocks of modern media systems. The first and still most prominent MPEG audio codec is mp3, which first appeared on the market in 1998. Since then, ...

I'm a little late but I'm finally getting around to "digitizing" my music collection. I can't decide on whether or not to use MP3 or AAC encoding. For the most part, I get the impression that AAC is ...

The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits has officially halted its licensing program for "certain MP3 related patents and software," effectively making the long-standing music format free to ...

MP3 is the file format that changed the whole world beyond the music industry. It eventually affected the entire entertainment industry, gave Apple a new mandate when PCs were conquering the computing ...

When comparing newly-updated iTunes Plus 256kbps AAC files with their 128kbps protected predecessors earlier, I noticed that the new files sounded noticeably louder than the old ones. The difference ...

MP3, the format that revolutionized the way we consume (and steal) music since the 90s, has been officially retired -- in a manner of speaking. The German research institution that created the format, ...

Mounting horror at the choice of AAC as audio codec for EMI's DRM-free music downloads at the iTunes store? See above how to do it in iTunes. Alternatives: WinAMP is the best transcoding software for ...