You didn't accidentally enter a time machine back to 2005. Believe it or not, the MP3 player is not dead. Sure, the classic iPods of yesteryear might be out of the picture, as the best smartphones can ...

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Digital music comes in many different formats – almost everyone knows MP3 thanks to Napster at the end of the last century, but what about OGG, AIFF, MQA or DSD? Confused? Don't worry, we're here to ...

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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 ...

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We’ve been hearing a lot about lossless audio lately. Apple Music says it has it. So does Amazon Music. Tidal and Qobuz have it too, but Spotify doesn’t. (Yet. Or still.) Is lossless audio a big deal?

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As many parents have discovered, those big monthly charges from the internet service provider have a lot to do with their teenage children downloading music over the web. The court-ordered demise of ...

Since its standardization in 1991, MP3 has gone from being a little-known portion of a video file format to the kind of ubiquity that most brands can only dream of having. It's both widespread, with ...