If your audio fidelity experience has only been in the form of CDs, MP3s, or lower-quality streaming services (such as Spotify and YouTube Music), you may be missing out on some audio bliss. There’s a ...

A few weeks back, one thousand of our readers participated in our MP3 bitrate test. Today, with the little help of a stats expert, we have results—and a recommended ...

Lately I've been trying to rid my life of as many physical artifacts as possible. I'm with Merlin Mann on CDs: Can't believe how quickly CDs went from something I hate storing to something I hate ...

Hi !<BR>I was reading a post on the MAD MP3 decoder, which decodes to 24 bit audio as compared to 16 bit output in the fraunhauffer decoder. Now on a 16 bit soundcard (i.e. with a 16 bit DAC) I don't ...

Primed goes in-depth on the technobabble you hear on Engadget every day -- we dig deep into each topic's history and how it benefits our lives. You can follow the series here. Looking to suggest a ...

Windows: If your music's starting to take up an uncomfortable amount of space on your hard drive (or small MP3 player), you can decrease the size of it by converting all your songs to Variable Bit ...

Well I just came up with an awesome plan of how I will keep EVERY SINGLE song I wanna listen to in my car, without having to bring my actual CD's. I purchased a MP3 playing CD player and just plan to ...

There will be no judgment in this post. No sound snobbery. I’m simply asking the age-old question: At what bitrate should we encode MP3s? And I need your help. This test is occurring in two parts. In ...

This application note describes the procedure to port the open source Helix MP3 decoder algorithm onto Microchip’s PIC32MX 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs). The source code provided with this document ...