MP3s have become so ubiquitous that we often forget it’s a compression format. When music gets trimmed to one-tenth of its original size, lots of information deemed “unimportant” gets tossed out. Here ...

OK, recently I did a Divx rip of Spy Game, and decided to try something a bit different with the sound. Normally I compress the soundtrack to MP3 while muxing it with Virtual Dub or NanDub.

The goal of digital compression algorithms is to produce a digital representation of an audio signal which, when decoded and reproduced, sounds the same as the original signal, while using a minimum ...

Whether or not you can actually hear the difference between a high-quality MP3 file and a lossless version of the same song is the subject of much audiophile debate. But there’s no question that no ...

SAN MATEO, Calif. — MP3Pro music compression got a boost this week when Texas Instruments Inc. and STMicroelectronics each announcing hardware support for the format. The new audio coding technology ...

Last week, Meta announced an AI-powered audio compression method called “EnCodec” that can reportedly compress audio 10 times smaller than the MP3 format at 64kbps with no loss in quality. Meta says ...