Lossless formats like ALAC and FLAC grab headlines, but AAC is the best audio format for most everyday listeners.

Do you know your OGG from your ALAC? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Digital music comes in many different formats – almost ...

An ordinance from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) was issued in 2011 on revision of the audio coding formats of 8K Super Hi-Vision (8K) broadcasting using 22.2 multichannel ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Via Licensing Corporation announced today that a patent pool license for Extended High Efficiency AAC (xHE-AAC) is in the final stage of development. xHE-AAC is the ...

Donald Bell has spent more than five years as a CNET senior editor, reviewing everything from MP3 players to the first three generations of the Apple iPad. He currently devotes his time to producing ...

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, ...

Microsoft's Windows 10 will receive support for Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) over Bluetooth in a new update later in 2021. The AAC support means that Windows users will be able to get better audio ...

Licensing for MP3, the digital audio coding format that Apple used for music downloads on the original iPod, has officially ended. The announcement comes from The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated ...

Chances are very good that you have been exposed to the artifacts of perceptual audio coding without even knowing it. Perceptual audio coding, in a general sense, is a method for reducing the amount ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Via Licensing Corporation has announced that it is developing a patent pool for the Extended High Efficiency AAC (xHE-AAC). A recent update to the Advanced Audio Coding range of ...