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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Spotify adds Exclusive Mode for bit perfect desktop audio playback. Does this mean Spotify Lossless now rivals Apple Music, TIDAL, and Qobuz for sound quality?

When Apple sidelined the 3.5-mm jack with the launch of last year’s iPhone 7, it looked like a bold move. But despite pockets of outrage over another clear case of planned obsolescence, it was a clear ...

The term lossless is a big one in music streaming right now. Ever since Apple Music rolled out lossless-quality tracks to its subscribers at no extra cost, it forced the hand of all the legacy ...

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 ...