Programmable Music for Agents and Vibecoders: Open Audio Protocol and Audius Launch Agent-First Infrastructure for the Next Era of Music

The Open Audio Protocol, which powers decentralized music application Audius, has announced the launch of the world's largest open and programmable music catalog, purpose-built for autonomous agents ...

WinXDVD 2025 Year-in-Review: Scaling AI Infrastructure Amid 215 Million Global Downloads

In 2025, WinXDVD solidified its position as a primary authority in the digital asset preservation market. The brand has now surpassed 215 million total user downloads across 200+ countries and ...
ZDNet

What is Bluetooth 6.0? How the latest standard is changing audio right before our eyes

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) released Bluetooth 6.0 in Sept. 2024. Its notable features pave the way for universal device tracking, lower latency, and more efficient wireless connections ...
Gizmodo

Open-Ear Audio Is Having a Huge Moment Right Now

If there’s one thing that CES 2026 illustrated to audiophiles, it’s that open-ear audio is the thing right now. The category isn’t new—big names in the audio space like Bose and Nothing have been ...
GitHub

A neural codec for speech compression using contextual features and adversarial training. This project implements a high-quality, low-latency speech compression system based on ...

Input Audio (16kHz) ↓ [CC Encoder] ├─→ Short-context stream (10ms stride) → 64-D features (Cs) └─→ Long-context stream (40ms stride) → 64-D features (Cl) ↓ [Quantization] (1-bit delta modulation) ↓ ...
TechSpot

The MP3 is almost 30, and it still sounds like the early internet

Through the looking glass: Nearly three decades after its US patent date, the MP3 is no longer the cutting edge of audio compression. Yet support for it remains ubiquitous in media players, browsers, ...
Interesting Engineering

Karlheinz Brandenburg

Karlheinz Brandenburg, born on June 20, 1954, is a renowned German electrical engineer and mathematician best known for being one of the principal MP3 audio compression format inventors. His ...
CNET

Windows 11 Previews a Feature That Lets You Share Audio With Another Person's Device

Want to watch a movie with your family or friends, but still allow each person to use their own audio device? Microsoft is previewing a new feature that will allow Windows 11 users to share audio over ...
Ars Technica

Apple aac Bluetooth audio avoiding transcoding

It looks to me that apple audio products like AirPods handle audio transmission better than the standard Bluetooth audio. It will send the actual aac file to the audio device to be decoded on the ...
Tech Digest

Spotify finally adds lossless audio after eight year wait

After years of speculation and broken promises, Spotify is finally rolling out lossless audio streaming to its premium subscribers. The long-awaited feature, which the company first hinted at as far ...
Microsoft

FOA Tokenizer: Learning Discrete Representations of Spatial Audio with Multichannel VQ-GAN

Spatial audio captures the directional and environmental characteristics of sound, enabling immersive listening experiences. First-Order Ambisonics (FOA) provides a compact representation of spatial ...