Now that the patents for the popular MP3 audio codec have expired, it’s unlikely that the format is going anywhere, despite many reports that misinterpreted what the end of the format’s licensing ...

The IETF has standardized the Opus lossy audio codec as RFC 6716. While most audio codecs aim to solve specific problems—relatively high bit-rate music reproduction such as AAC and MP3, low latency ...

A multifaceted sound compression technology is now a standard, smoothing its way to use in technologies such as Web-based voice chats and videoconferencing. Next up: video? Stephen Shankland worked at ...

Following yesterday’s celebration of Firefox 15 beta, which is said to fix the browser’s long maligned memory leak issues, Mozilla announced that it will support the Opus audio codec going forward, ...

Earlier today, SoundCloud came under fire for reports that it had "drastically reduced" the quality of streamed audio from 128kbps MP3 to the 64 kbps Opus format. Though a lower bitrate does ...

Barix, known for products capable of bringing high-quality audio across IP networks, has introduced a new second model in its SIP Opus Codec family of Audio over IP transport solutions. The M400 SIP ...

Microsoft helped create new technology for improving online audio and speech. Now the company's fighting against it. How'd that happen? Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

Wait, where is FLAC? Shouldn't that be somewhere? @moonshark I still use LAME only for the compatibilities sake. Click to expand... FLAC, and other lossless formats, all belong in that same group this ...