MP3s have become so ubiquitous that we often forget it’s a compression format. When music gets trimmed to one-tenth of its original size, lots of information deemed “unimportant” gets tossed out. Here ...

Creating and sharing good audio takes a lot more than a microphone, an app, and a save button. A key editing tool is ...

Meta has announced an AI-powered audio compression method that supposedly delivers ten times better compression than the MP3 format. The audio compression method is called ‘EnCodec,’ which Meta ...

MP3 file format (short for MPEG Audio layer 3) is a lossy audio data compression format, developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). This format is used to compress normal ...

Whether or not you can actually hear the difference between a high-quality MP3 file and a lossless version of the same song is the subject of much audiophile debate. But there’s no question that no ...

Last week, Meta announced an AI-powered audio compression method called “EnCodec” that can reportedly compress audio 10 times smaller than the MP3 format at 64kbps with no loss in quality. Meta says ...

Suppose on the face value their claims are true about the compression ratio vs fidelity loss - "CD quality audio at 1/10th the current standard data size". That's an order of magnitude improvement. So ...