Here’s a quick look at the types of audio compression used and how they work. Lossy vs. lossless. There are two types of audio compression: lossy and lossless.

Audio file formats make a big difference to the quality of the music you listen to. Get the ins and outs on the most popular formats and find out why they're important.

Those music files — be they MP3, AAC or WMA — that you listen to on your portable music players are pretty crap when it comes to accurate sound reproduction from the original recording.

MP3, like many other lossy audio compression schemes, relies heavily on these kinds of psychoacoustic effects to work its magic. In particular, it exploits the phenomenon of frequency masking.

People mix up the two types of audio compression all the time. Dynamic range and lossy compression are very different things. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a ...

Some YouTube users are mounting a growing revolt against the site’s new audio scheme, which has degraded the sound quality of clips on the site by running them through an audio processor that ...

By compressing audio using Encodec, we have achieved state-of-the-art results in low-bit-rate audio compression from 1.5 kbps to 12 kbps, and have announced that real-time audio encoding and ...

The MP3 file format was always encumbered with patents, but as of 2017, the last patent finally expired. Although the format became synonymous with the digital music revolution that started in the … ...