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 ...

Audacity provides an effective, minimally destructive way to lower the bit rate of an audio file. Lowering the bit rate lessens the quality of the audio file, but also decreases the file size. This ...

We’ve all listened to digital music, right? And that means you’ve probably heard of “bitrate” or come across files that have “kbps” at the end. Thing is… what does that mean? What the hell is bitrate?

A process is used when music is compressed into MP3 to discard all the sounds a machine thinks the human ear can't audibly perceive, thus vastly reducing the amount of storage needed to hold entire ...

I'm interested in implementing an audio output for a microcontroller and so I need some really crappy wav files to play with so I can try to PWM them out to a speaker. <BR><BR>So I'm looking to ...

Apple did its part in moving the world to wireless headphones. With the removal of the headphone jack with iPhone 7, the company made it clear that the future of audio is wireless. However, the ...

Windows only: MP3 Quality Modifier makes it easy to lower the bit rate of your audio files, allowing non-audiophiles to fit more of them onto an MP3 player. Lossless formats and high bit rate MP3 ...

If you stream music (and who doesn't these days) you've obviously come across abbreviations at the end of the audio files. The acronyms reading WAV, FLAC, MP3 and so on, are called audio codecs. You ...

One in a series of articles about getting the best performance out of your investment in HD Radio. In the discussion forum at the amusingly-named GearSlutz.com, there’s a thread from July 2011 with ...

To export Audacity files as MP3s, you just need to use the "Export" option in the program's "File" menu. Older versions of Audacity can't export MP3s natively, and you'll need to install an add-on ...