audio codecs

Sony has been in the e-book business for a while now, but the Daily, as it's called when brevity is an issue, is the company's latest attempt to make these things finally "click." As of this writing (November 19, 2009) it's not actually available yet, but Sony says it will ship in time for Christmas. (It's available for pre-order right now.)  

This interesting, blistering bit of cathartic noise-rock comes courtesy of the group Weekend. The San Francisco quartet blaze through a song equal parts Isn't Anything and Interpol, ratcheting up the tension with each passing second. Just short of four and a half minutes, the song finally careens out of control, with rampaging snare hits and walls of feedback.  

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In order to promote the digital release of their new Stills EP , God Help The Girl is giving away the title track. No direct link to the MP3, but if you follow the "Download" link below and give them your email address and zip code, you'lll be given the option to download the song in variety of formats including 320kbps MP3, FLAC, and Apple Lossless. Belle and Sebastian 's Stuart Murdoch has been working on this project for years, and the album was excellent.

This is not the usual five duffers that didn’t make the album   -Stuart Murdoch

 

EddieSpinola writes "Everyone knows that lossless codecs like FLAC produce better sounding music than lossy codecs like MP3. Well that's the theory anyway. The reality is that most of us can't tell the difference between MP3 and FLAC. In this quick and dirty test, a worrying preponderance of subjects rated the MP3 encodes higher than the FLAC files. Very interesting, if slightly disturbing reading!" Visiting with adblock and flashblock is highly recommended, lest you be blinded. The article is spread over  

Organs, yes, but much of Thom Carter 's field recordings taken at St. Mary's, a church in Rye, England, are not of instruments but of people, and they show how people's sounds can feel out the contours of a space. There are five tracks in all in Up on the Hill , which Carter released under the Son Clair pseudonym on the Elephants Music label. Tracks such as "Crowds in the Church" ( MP3 ) easily take on the structure of music themselves, as they are revealed not as a solid block of ambient noise (voices, f  

TrustedReviews says no . They go so far as to suggest than anything over 192kpbs MP3 is virtually impossible to differentiate. "[A] few people in the last six months or so - people who take their audio gear seriously and have spent thousands of pounds on Hi-Fi equipment - have admitted privately to us that 256kbps MP3 is easily good enough for serious listening, and that they struggle to hear much difference over 192kbps MP3 in many situations." They conducted some A/B listening tests to see if ordinary pe  

Dancepants is a conceptual MP3 player that seems like a straight-up cruel product. Basically, its a music player that only works while you're running. If you stop, the music stops.  

Qualcomm holds about a quarter of the patents required to make the Long Term Evolution wireless standard happen on mobile devices and networks, according to an ABI Research report published earlier this week. Other big holders include Interdigital, with 18 percent; Huawei, with 10 percent; Nokia and LG, with 9 percent each; and Samsung, with 7 percent. In fact, Len Lauer, COO of Qualcomm, confirmed that the company's royalty rate for LTE would be about 1 percent lower than the royalty it charges for 3G.  

Qualcomm holds about a quarter of the patents required to make the Long Term Evolution wireless standard happen on mobile devices and networks, according to an ABI Research report published earlier this week. Other big holders include Interdigital, with 18 percent; Huawei, with 10 percent; Nokia and LG, with 9 percent each; and Samsung, with 7 percent. In fact, Len Lauer, COO of Qualcomm, confirmed that the company's royalty rate for LTE would be about 1 percent lower than the royalty it charges for 3G.