This app, available on the Google Play Store, allows you to compress various types of audio files quickly and easily. It supports almost all audio formats and facilitates file conversion in good ...

As the name implies, anything that's compressed is SMALLER than it was originally. In the kitchen, some of us still use compacters that compress our garbage so we can cram more of it into the same ...

In the world of Linux, file compression is a routine yet critical task, serving the dual purpose of saving disk space and speeding up file transfers. With several compression tools at your disposal, ...

Sam is a journalist based in Vancouver, BC. She graduated from the University of British Columbia with a degree in English literature with a minor in Creative Writing, cutting her teeth through her ...

Most people have downloaded large files, such as music or video, from the Internet. Because of the large size of these files, downloading them can take hours. To solve this problem, and make better ...

People mix up the two types of audio compression all the time. Dynamic range and lossy compression are very different things. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a ...

A group of MIT researchers believe they’ve found a way to speed up audio, video, and image compression by improving on the Fourier Transform. They say the new algorithm is up to ten times faster than ...

The goal of digital compression algorithms is to produce a digital representation of an audio signal which, when decoded and reproduced, sounds the same as the original signal, while using a minimum ...

In previous episodes of this long-running series looking at the world of high-quality audio, at every point we’ve stayed in the real world of physical audio hardware. From the human ear to the ...