Rumors of the imminent demise of the MP3 format are exaggerated, and I for one won't stand for it. A recent DVice article claims that the compressed MP3 is going the way of the Dodo bird because ...

A process is used when music is compressed into MP3 to discard all the sounds a machine thinks the human ear can't audibly perceive, thus vastly reducing the amount of storage needed to hold entire ...

Q Would you explain the difference between downloading a CD to a computer using the lossless vs. the lossy compression formats? Would I be able to hear the difference using headphones? Is there a ...

The absolute lowest MP3 bit rate you should consider is 128kbps. This was often referred to as being CD quality, but it's far from being so. This bit rate will allow you to get much more music on to ...

A: Lossless compression reduces the size of the digital file without affecting the sound quality. You get the same sound quality as the original source but it takes up less storage space on a CD, DVD, ...