LAS VEGAS — As part of an upgrade of its media codecs, Real Networks is switching from Sony's ATRAC III to Advanced Audio Compression (AAC) in an effort to fend off what's seen as a rising tide of ...

Full-HD Voice VoIP using the AAC-ELD codec delivers CD-like quality for highly improved communication experiences. Erlangen, Germany – Nov 12, 2012 – Fraunhofer IIS, the world's renowned source for ...

It’s hard to believe that the first Internet radio broadcast took place just 20 years ago. Today, tens of millions of people stream Internet radio to their smartphones, tablets and other connected ...

Lossless formats like ALAC and FLAC grab headlines, but AAC is the best audio format for most everyday listeners.

Australia-based codec maker Tieline Technology has announced the addition of MPEG-4 AAC-LC, HE-AAC v1 and HE-AAC v2 codecs as options for the Bridge-IT IP codec. Tieline International Marketing ...

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, ...

ERLANGEN, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fraunhofer IIS, primary developer of the xHE-AAC audio codec, is pleased to announce the licensing of its xHE-AAC software implementations to Audible, Inc. Audible ...

Few audio standards have had the impact of MP3. But there’s more to audio codecs than just MP3. 3GPP audio standard format families, AAC and AMR, are the commercial powerhouses that are early in their ...

ERLANGEN, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fraunhofer IIS, an institute of Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in Germany, has announced a new web-based test service that developers and manufacturers can use to validate ...

Fraunhofer IIS, inventor of the ubiquitous MP3 music format, on Monday made a pitch to audio and computer makers to use its HD-AAC format. HD-AAC is a new digital music encoding format that Fraunhofer ...

In conjunction with Wednesday’s release of iTunes 4.5, Apple has also posted an update to QuickTime, the company’s core audio and video media handling technology for both Mac OS and Windows. The new ...