If you use iTunes or if you buy and download digital music, you’ll have come across a number of terms and abbreviations that describe digital audio files. This alphabet soup can be quite confusing.

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 ...

A process is used when music is compressed into MP3 to discard all the sounds a machine thinks the human ear can't audibly perceive, thus vastly reducing the amount of storage needed to hold entire ...

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 ...

I'm interested in implementing an audio output for a microcontroller and so I need some really crappy wav files to play with so I can try to PWM them out to a speaker. <BR><BR>So I'm looking to ...

If you subscribe to an online music download service or frequentlypurchase from one, you might find that your music comes in a widevariety of formats–some playable by all models of digital ...