It was big news last week when Microsoft got slapped with a massive $1.52 billion judgement for infringing on Lucent's patents related to MP3, but while Lucent may not be busting out the Cristal in ...

The MP3 file format was always encumbered with patents, but as of 2017, the last patent finally expired. Although the format became synonymous with the digital music revolution that started in the ...

The MP3 file format was always encumbered with patents, but as of 2017, the last patent finally expired. Although the format became synonymous with the digital music revolution that started in the ...

Germany's Fraunhofer IIS and Technicolor software have issued a statement regarding the MP3 codec. Late last month patents and software support for MP3 officially came to an end. In a note about the ...

Sure, most of us satisfy our music-listening needs these days using our phones, tablets, and smart speakers, but that doesn't mean a dedicated MP3 player or portable music player is a completely ...

MANHASSET, N.Y. — Consumers can download for free a new digital audio codec called MP3Pro, an enhanced version of MP3 software that enables the creation of more compact and better sounding digital ...

Edinburgh, Scotland – A low-power, single-chip coder-decoder from Wolfson Microelectronics, for use in the latest generation of handheld computing and communication devices, lets users make a phone ...

I use Winamp for all my mp3 files. Usually I double click on the mp3 file in explorer and away I go. Today my 2k installation tried to install an mp3 codec (fraunhofer) after I double clicked on an ...

Suppose on the face value their claims are true about the compression ratio vs fidelity loss - "CD quality audio at 1/10th the current standard data size". That's an order of magnitude improvement. So ...

TL;DR: Encodec is a next-generation audio codec based on a complex neural network design, a system that can squeeze a lot of audio juice into minimal storage space. The codec would work for Metaverse ...

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 ...