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 ...

Here we go again. Another editorial has appeared based on the (mistaken, IMO) premise that digital audio (and video) quality is declining. I actually agree with much of the article – “In defense of ...

According to Stanford professor of music Jonathan Berger, young music listeners prefer (vastly prefer, according to his informal findings) MP3s over audio files of higher quality. And not just due to ...