Smartphones have long since surpassed the old MP3 player when it comes to portable music, and continue to include more and more impressive audio hardware to win over the audiophile crowd – from front ...

The digital audio world has changed rapidly over the last ten years, introducing all sorts of new and exciting audio file formats: AU, AIF, MIDI, and WAV, to name a few. The recent arrival of the MP3 ...

French media behemoth Thomson has announced mp3HD, a new lossless 'hybrid' MP3 format, which not only offers the sound detail lost in a normal MP3, but remains compatible with your existing MP3 player ...

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How often have you found multiple audio editing tools under a single program? Hardly any programs have this facility. But just a few days ago I happened to come across a newly released tool called MP3 ...

The age of the MP3 is officially over. The developer of the early digital audio codec announced this week that it has ended its licensing agreement, ceding to more versatile formats as the new ...

Soon your MP3 files could be sounding even better. The Fraunhofer Institute has found a way to reproduce surround sound in a way that works with small MP3 files. Using a small amount of additional ...

MP3 is the most commonly used file format for audio files, but did you know that the OGG file format offers better audio quality? An OGG file is a compressed audio file similar to an MP3 file but with ...