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 ...

Most burning software nowadays supports "direct" burning from mp3 though, and it does the decoding to wave file transparently (i.e. you don't have to do that step separately, it does it for you).<P>If ...

An online music format that challenges MP3 in quality but owes nothing to any corporation will finally debut this weekend. Designed for free public use, the Ogg Vorbis format owes its existence to a ...

Looking for a new stereophonic sound spectacular from your MP3s? Download the Fraunhofer IIS MP3 Surround player, MP3 Surround encoder and the MP3 Stereo eXtended converter. The no-cost eval apps, ...

Building a digital music library used to be a simple matter of inserting a CD into your Mac and encoding the songs as MP3 files. Today the process is a little more complicated. iTunes 4.5 not only ...

This was done in Erlangen; the spin-off Opticom distributed an MP3 playback program for Windows computers. The free version only played 20-second snippets, the full version was marketed for little ...

I'm just curious as to the pros and cons of the Windows Media Audio format vs. mp3 in terms of quality vs. file size. I did a search, but didn't come up with anything (maybe my search skills suck). I ...