Audio codecs are one of the fundamental building blocks of modern media systems. The first and still most prominent MPEG audio codec is mp3, which first appeared on the market in 1998. Since then, ...

It’s hard to believe that the first Internet radio broadcast took place just 20 years ago. Today, tens of millions of people stream Internet radio to their smartphones, tablets and other connected ...

A variety of audio compression technologies are being used today, each having a distinct advantage over the other in terms of compression ratio, coding delay, coding complexity or legacy system ...