A variety of audio compression technologies are being used today, each having a distinct advantage over the other in terms of compression ratio, coding delay, coding complexity or legacy system ...

Digital is becoming the dominant technology in today's audio applications. With satellite radio, VoIP, cellular phones, and MP3 players, digital is replacing analog techniques in broadcast ...

Alexander Zink is senior business development manager for Digital Radio and Streaming Applications at Fraunhofer IIS. Stefan Meltzer is technology consultant for Fraunhofer IIS. The nature of ...

Audio codecs are one of the fundamental building blocks of modern media systems. The first and still most prominent MPEG audio codec is mp3, which first appeared on the market in 1998. Since then, ...