Consumers no longer have to trade off audio quality with streaming speed, thanks to MPEG4-SLS (Scalable-to-Lossless Coding), the world's first adaptive audio streaming technology using the MPEG-4 SLS ...

Fraunhofer IIS believes its new MPEG audio codec makes CD collections obsolete. The codec, HD-AAC, offers music encoding “with quality beyond CDs and at the same time, iPod compatibility.” The company ...