If you've downloaded a Van Halen, Hole, Sarah McLachlan or even a Beatles song online, and it sounds just a bit off to you, you're not alone--you might have run into a "codec killer." Online music ...
Codecs sound tediously techy - something only geeks who dream in hexadecimals need care remotely about. But codecs matter to you, me and Joe Mousepad, as I learned the hard way. For research purposes, ...
If you stream music (and who doesn't these days) you've obviously come across abbreviations at the end of the audio files. The acronyms reading WAV, FLAC, MP3 and so on, are called audio codecs. You ...
Within my recent coverage of high-res audio players (and the services that feed them content) and external DACs and amplifiers, I realized I’ve been tossing a lot of new and potentially-unfamiliar ...
Wait, where is FLAC? Shouldn't that be somewhere? @moonshark I still use LAME only for the compatibilities sake. Click to expand... FLAC, and other lossless formats, all belong in that same group this ...
If you've downloaded a Van Halen, Hole, Sarah McLachlan or even a Beatles song online, and it sounds just a bit off to you, you're not alone--you might have run into a "codec killer." Online music ...
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