CNET explains what FLAC is, where to buy music in the format, and how to play it on your phone, computer or hi-fi. TV and home video editor Ty Pendlebury joined CNET Australia in 2006, and moved to ...

The MP3 file format was always encumbered with patents, but as of 2017, the last patent finally expired. Although the format became synonymous with the digital music revolution that started in the ...

Mp3s have embedded themselves into daily musical life so thoroughly that they're taken for granted. They don't call attention to themselves as aesthetic objects like records; instead, we interact with ...

MP3. It's the format that revolutionized the way music's been consumed since the late '90s. When Karlheinz Brandenburg, a German acoustics engineer, discovered that an audio file could be compressed ...

Wouldn’t it be nice to live in a world where there’s only one file format for every byte of audio-video content? Crashing back to reality though, we’re stuck with numerous codecs, and one of these ...

Sure, most of us satisfy our music-listening needs these days using our phones, tablets, and smart speakers, but that doesn't mean a dedicated MP3 player or portable music player is a completely ...

To online file-traders, it is the original, pure file format for digital music. To the recording industry, it is a pirate ship that has been the basis for copyright violation and lost revenue.

You didn't accidentally enter a time machine back to 2005. Believe it or not, the MP3 player is not dead. Sure, the classic iPods of yesteryear might be out of the picture, as the best smartphones can ...

Since I put together this new rig and installed Win7 on it, I've been using Windows Media Player to play backups of old mp3's and to rip CD's. In the past I've always used 3rd party software for ...

The MP3 file format, the one that helped the iPod become a mainstream and iconic device, is now officially dead. According to a new report via NPR, the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits has ...

While the format works well with Windows Media Player, it isn’t the best for other media players, many of which do not support the format. Thus, users prefer to convert the WMA format files format to ...