The online world will get its first glimpse of the new MP3 format Thursday, with the first major update to a technology that has become synonymous with both digital music and online piracy. Thomson ...

Feb. 19 -- "Why isn't MP3 dead yet," complained reader Matt Bieschke to me in an e-mail. "I've been waiting a long time for MP3 to die, and it just seems to get more popular." It's a good question, ...

The online world is to get its first glimpse of the new MP3 format, with the first major update to a technology that has become synonymous with both digital music and online piracy. Thomson Multimedia ...

Smaller and better is the mantra of the technology industry, but when it comes to the upgrade for the MP3 audio compression format that simple formula is not a guarantee of success. Over the last ...

The MP3 file format was always encumbered with patents, but as of 2017, the last patent finally expired. Although the format became synonymous with the digital music revolution that started in the ...

MP3 took off in the late 90s as the digital music format. It then proceeded to slaughter the CD, and launch the file sharing revolution as well. It’s a proud format that has roots stretching all the ...

Digital file formats don't usually get the rock star treatment when it comes to entering the public's consciousness, but if one ever did, the MP3 format is it. But that's all coming to an end -- or at ...

Wax cylinders, reel-to-reel tapes, eight-tracks, cassettes, and CDs have all been relegated to the dustbin of musical history (you keep doin’ you, vinyl albums). Now, that list includes its first ...

French media behemoth Thomson has announced mp3HD, a new lossless 'hybrid' MP3 format, which not only offers the sound detail lost in a normal MP3, but remains compatible with your existing MP3 player ...