If you begin to dip your toes into the busy, crowded and confusing world of audio file formats, you'll quickly find yourself ...

Though other similar formats, like Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), Windows Media Audio (WMA), and Ogg Vorbis would proliferate in time, the dominant format was MPEG-1 Audio Layer III, or MP3 ...

As MP3 utilises lossy compression, the same audio stream would result in a smaller file size as an MP3 than it would if captured as a WAV file. Both formats generally capture sound at 44.1KHz per ...

A digital audio file format from Microsoft that compresses an audio CD to a range of 206 to 411MB, at bit rates of 470 to 940 Kbps. Mathematically equivalent to the original audio track ...

With regard to audio, analog audio formats always contain the electronic equivalent of the frequencies of human hearing and are differentiated mostly by their transport systems, such as 1/8 ...

With Astell&Kern continuing to refine the art of making mp3 players, and other companies staying committed to old analogue formats, we’ve also explored recording devices that’ll capture all forms of ...