Audacity provides an effective, minimally destructive way to lower the bit rate of an audio file. Lowering the bit rate lessens the quality of the audio file, but also decreases the file size. This ...

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 ...

In 1937, British inventor Alec Reeves filed a patent application for an "electric signaling system" that could transcode sound into pulses to be transmitted down a line for later decoding. As such, ...

The cadence at which digital music travels through the web—known in technical parlance as audio bitrate—is a cornerstone of the modern streaming experience. In essence, it counts the amount of raw ...

After recording a 2-hour lecture, the file size exceeded 10GB.Looking at this number, one might tend to think, 'How many ...

Netflix is rolling out an upgrade to its audio streaming technology that increases the maximum bitrate of its audio and allows it to adjust based on the speed of your internet connection. The ...