The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits has officially halted its licensing program for "certain MP3 related patents and software," effectively making the long-standing music format free to ...

MP3 is the file format that changed the whole world beyond the music industry. It eventually affected the entire entertainment industry, gave Apple a new mandate when PCs were conquering the computing ...

I'm a little late but I'm finally getting around to "digitizing" my music collection. I can't decide on whether or not to use MP3 or AAC encoding. For the most part, I get the impression that AAC is ...

I created some audio discs of music I was putting into my CD changer in one vehicle. I wanted to play the same music in my other car so I decided to re-import the audio discs as MP3 to be burned onto ...

MP3, the format that revolutionized the way we consume (and steal) music since the 90s, has been officially retired -- in a manner of speaking. The German research institution that created the format, ...