Xiph QuickTime Components (XiphQT) is a project that is working on plugins that will allow Xiph formats to be played in Quicktime based software such as Itunes. While XiphQT is in the beginning phases it is currently the only actively developed solution for playing Ogg and Flac in Itunes on both PC and MAC
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Nugs.net, a live music download service has gathered a group of musicians together to provide tracks that will benefit New Orleans charities that aid local musicians. The artists involved are some of the greatest improvisional bands to date including Widespread Panic, Trey Anastasio of Phish, Jerry Garcia Band, David Grisman Quintet, New Riders of the […]

Kenwood has a new HD-based audio player due out sometime in December labeled as the HD30GA9. What is interesting about this release is the refernce to a new proprietary lossless format called Kenwood Lossless. As of this posting I have been unable to find any additional information on this lossless format. If you know anything […]

The Nurmark HDX is the next generation in turntables sporting a removable 80GB hard drive, CD player and support for FLAC, WAV, OGG, WMA and MP3. With a hard drive you don’t have to worry about hauling milk crates of vinyl all over town but at 22 pounds its not exactly light either.
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Rockbox is an open source operating system for music players that started in 2002 and was initially developed for the Archos DAP. Since then a port for the iRiver H100 series (110,120,140) has been developed and received alot of attention. More recently the port for the H300 series has begin to appear in the current […]

At the recent CEDIA Expo Dolby announced a new lossless audio format to be used on the upcoming Blu-ray and HD-DVD discs. This new format called TrueHD is touted as a update for the MLP (Meridian Lossless Packing) format that was developed by Meridian and currently used on DVD-Audio discs. Dolby TrueHD also supports the […]

WavPack Releases 4.3
4.3 Features

Compatible with virtually all PCM audio formats including 8, 16, and 24-bit ints; 32-bit floats; mono, stereo, and multichannel; sampling rates from 6 to 192 kHz
Multiplatform support including Windows, Linux, and OS X
Instantly seekable and streaming capable
Error-tolerant block format conducive to hardware decoding
Optional “asymmetrical” mode for improved compression
MD5 audio checksums for verification […]

While I am still putting together a more detailed overview of Meedio’s lossless audio features Meedio released version 1.38. With this upgrade comes a very welcome update for the BASS sound engine. Bass Sound Engine 2.2 includes native support for AC3, FLAC, ALAC, APE, MPC, WV and SPX! Meedio previously supported Flac, WavPack and Ape […]

McIntosh Laboratory, Inc. makers of high-end AV components has released the MS300 Music Server. The MS300 is a 300GB music server with wide range of features that allow for computer like control in an AV component. Control can be managed via the included wireless keyboard, remote control or the web-based interface anywhere on your network. […]

Here is an interesting article from The Register regarding Apple’s lack of cooperation with Microsoft to add support for the Ipod and Itunes to work with the Xbox 360. The final word in the article states a few reasons why the Xbox 360 will still be able to work with the Ipod and Itunes.

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Conduits who is the maker of many popular PPC applications has released a new version of its audio player, Pocket Player 2. New to version 2.61 is support for FLAC. The details on FLAC support have not been released but as soon as I can get them I will update this post.
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Cowon who is famous for there iAudio M3 and X5 HD-based players is preparing to release the flashed-based iAudio U3. While the U3 is not currently listed on the US website the Korean ite is showing the U3 with support for MP3, WMA, Ogg, ASF, Xvid Mpeg4 and FLAC (0,1,2). Based on a Babelfish translation […]

iPlay is a client audio player and recorder for the Pocket PC that has both client and server applications available. There is also a Smartphone version currently in development that should be available soon. iPlay has a wide variety of features and capabilites for a Pocket PC player but why we are so interested in […]

Roxio has released its latest version of Toast. Toast 7 Titanium finally includes Native Support for Ogg Vorbis and FLAC and so far early reports are good. Another great feature is support for Disc Spanning allowing you to write large amounts of data across multiple CD/DVD disks. This is a feature that […]