In my August column, “The Audio World Without ISDN,” we looked at the impending demise of ISDN and the options available for those who can no longer get service. With telcos pushing everything into ...

I can play most DiVX movies without issue. There are a couple, however, that when I try to play them, Windows Media Player attempts to download a codec and of course, fails miserably. However, the ...

In a bid to put an end to the all-too-familiar choppy, robotic voice calls that come with low bandwidth, Google is open-sourcing Lyra, a new audio codec that taps machine learning to produce ...

The Bluetooth SIG is preparing for lossless and spatial audio formats. Standardization reduces proprietary requirements and licensing fees. These formats are unlikely to appear until the next decade.

During the pandemic people have been more reliant on video conferencing technology than ever before. This communications technology has become more prevalent than ever - moving beyond remote office ...

If you stream music (and who doesn't these days) you've obviously come across abbreviations at the end of the audio files. The acronyms reading WAV, FLAC, MP3 and so on, are called audio codecs. You ...