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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Netflix has finally given attention to optimizing its audio streaming technology in the same way its adaptive video switching system can seamlessly recalibrate video bitrates while a stream is ...

Spotify has finally joined the ranks of Tidal, Apple Music, and Deezer by offering lossless streaming, as long as you're subscribed to Spotify Premium. The lossless audio streaming feature isn't ...

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 ...

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?