Building a digital music library used to be a simple matter of inserting a CD into your computer and encoding the songs as MP3 files. Today the process is a little more complicated. iTunes 4.5 and ...

Analog Devices Inc. has unveiled a chipset that includes a real-time MP3 audioencoder/decoder on a single DSP chip that is fully compliant with the ISO/IEC 11172-3audio standard. Analog’s Melody MP3 ...

The VS1063 IC can encode an unforeseen multitude of audio formats, from MP3 and OggVorbis to G.711 u-law, G.711 A-law, G.722 and 16-bit PCM. The proprietary MP3 and OggVorbis encoders have been ...

Audio specialist VLSI Solution has unveiled what it claims to be the world's most advanced audio codec chip, designed for a range of consumer and industrial applications. According to the company, the ...

Reader Jack wrote in the comments to How We Made Our Podcasts with a bit of information that I wanted to promote to the main page, because of its usefulness. After installing LAME, we then need to ...

Due to some hard drive problems, I need to rip all my cds again. I'm planning on using 192 or 224 mp3s for this. I know I could use EAC+lame, but I like to use iTunes to organize my music. So just ...

The MP3 audio data compression technology and file format is very popular, but until recently, due to patent issues, audio editing apps could not include MP3 encoding functionality as standard. At the ...

i just recently lost tons of my mp3 collection by accident. View image: /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif <BR>i did a disk recovery and i was only able to recover ...

Microsoft is weighing how much support it will offer in its upcoming Windows XP operating system for MP3s, a popular music format that competes with the company's own Windows Media technology. Test ...

For most people, dropping a CD into their disc drive and clicking “Import” in iTunes is good enough. For music freaks, though, it’s not—and with good reason. Here’s how to digitize your tunes, the ...