Choosing the right audio format matters to every producer and mastering engineer. When you know precisely when to use WAV, MP3, or FLAC, your workflow becomes more efficient and your masters retain ...

Movies encoded in UltraViolet's Common File Format represent just one of multiple takes on paid internet video -- what's to make them stand out? The answer might just be Dolby Digital Plus audio ...

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The ability to transport audio and video over Ethernet/Internet has been around for years, so how is IP audio different? The simple answer is that there are similarities in terms of how the data is ...

In the last 15 years, as digital music has slowly but surely extinguished the analog flame, the focus with digital audio has always been on enabling easy access, portability, and manageability of the ...

Asking for "the best" <i>anything</i> is asking quite a bit, but that doesn't stop hordes of people from asking us what the best way to encode audio files is. For this edition of Ask Ars, we want to ...

Have you ever ventured deep into the audio settings on your PlayStation 3? Unless you have a working knowledge of audio encoding formats, it might as well be written in a foreign language. While the ...