In the age of highly compressed music files playing on iPods and even lower-quality Pandora streams playing on iPhones, some artists, music producers, and others in the music industry are apparently ...

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.

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 ...

Thanks to the ability of digital audio to be perfectly copied, transmitted, and carried in small packages, we may be surrounded by more music and human-made audio programming than at any other time in ...

Just as a new generation of video coders is finding its way into the market, audio is keeping up the pace. Audio coders handle both ends of the bit-rate spectrum (and in the middle as well). Low ...

As you have probably noticed, there’s a new trend in the smartphone industry of including “studio quality” audio chips inside modern flagship smartphones. While a 32-bit DAC (digital to analog ...

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 ...

Everybody is familiar with high-definition video these days, which packs more visual information (more pixels) into the shows you see on TV and on Blu-ray discs. But you may not know much about ...

The absolute lowest MP3 bit rate you should consider is 128kbps. This was often referred to as being CD quality, but it's far from being so. This bit rate will allow you to get much more music on to ...

If you’ve started to get into audio, you’ve probably seen something called “bit depth.” The thing is… what the hell is it? Well, we’re here to help. Think of it like the audio version of a TV’s frame ...

LAS VEGAS — At the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show here Monday (Jan. 8), high-definition video IC provider Silicon Image Inc. rolled out a pair of VastLane High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) 1 ...