A few weeks back, one thousand of our readers participated in our MP3 bitrate test. Today, with the little help of a stats expert, we have results—and a recommended ...

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Lately I've been trying to rid my life of as many physical artifacts as possible. I'm with Merlin Mann on CDs: Can't believe how quickly CDs went from something I hate storing to something I hate ...

Patent number 5,579,430 does not read like a manifesto for a new music business, but its grant to Germany's Fraunhofer Institute on November 26, 1996, marked ...

I recently ripped my 500+ CD collection to 320k MP3's using EAC, resulting in a beautiful sounding music library that takes up 70GB of space.<BR><BR>I'd like to copy my library over to my laptop so I ...

I'm sure a conversion is possible; however, your taking lossy, and converting to lossy (that is low bit rate no less) so you are going to get a pretty ugly sounding track. I'm not sure what kind of ...

Amazon's upcoming plan to sell unprotected MP3s remains shrouded in secrecy, as a company spokesperson refused to divulge the price or bit rate of the songs. The launch date also remains a mystery, as ...