An Apple patent (number 7895045) for bitrate constrained variable bitrate audio encoding has appeared at the US Patent & Trademark Office. A hybrid audio encoding technique incorporates both ABR, or ...

Netflix announced today that it's bringing "studio quality" sound to its audiences. The company is increasing its audio bitrate up to 640 kbps on devices that support 5.1 surround sound and up to 768 ...

I'm feeling really frustrated right now. Wondering if anyone else has run into the same issue or knows of a workaround. Here's the problem: I have about 11.5GB of music in my iTunes library. Most of ...

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When it comes to digital video, bitrate is defined as the amount of data that is processed in a file's audio and video tracks over a given period of time. Generally speaking, a digital video's overall ...

Netflix is upgrading its audio settings to provide quality as close to the original program master. The network says the changes were prompted by input from the Duffer brothers, producers of its ...

The term lossless is a big one in music streaming right now. Ever since Apple Music rolled out lossless-quality tracks to its subscribers at no extra cost, it forced the hand of all the legacy ...

If you use YouTube to discover and listen to music, you may no longer be bogged down by the insufficient audio quality. YouTube is preparing for updated audio settings which will open up options for ...

We’ve all listened to digital music, right? And that means you’ve probably heard of “bitrate” or come across files that have “kbps” at the end. Thing is… what does that mean? What the hell is bitrate?