Archive for March, 2006

Command Line Tool for Tagging Lossless Files

While there are a few popular tagging tools available everyone has a preference on how they like there tagging application to work. With this in mind we will continue to list any new applications that may help managing your lossless audio files a little better.
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Based on the tool Tag created by Case this modified version […]

Max for Macs

Max is MAC application that combines the error correcting of cdparanoia with open source formats allowing MAC users to create files in 20 different formats. Formats supported include FLAC, Ogg, Apple Lossless, Speex, AAC to name a few. Freedb is also implemented to retrieve CD information and metadata output is supported for MP3, FLAC, Ogg […]

Smithsonian Offers Lossless Audio Downloads

Smithsonian Global Sound offers music from around the world allowing you to sample high quality audio from an enormous variety of cultures. The browsing structure is simple allowing you to start by choosing from 6 main areas around the world. You can then get as specific as certain cultural groups. You can also browse by […]

WavPack on Windows 64

Two people have successfully built WavPack for Windows 64 based on WavPack 4.31.
A poster over at the Hydrogenaudio Forums has successfully built a native Windows 64 version of WavPack 4.31.
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Peter Pawlowski has made a Windows 64 build available over at Rarewares.
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Cowon A2 Firmware Upgrade Adds FLAC

Cowon has released a firmware upgrade for the A2 that adds support for Flac with compression 0-8. The newest firmware release 1.61 provides a fix for Flac as well as adding the ability to view images while listening to music.
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Realtek Releases ALC885 Lossless Audio Codecs

Realtek has released a new high definition audio codec aimed at providing lossless audio with content protection for DVD, Blu-ray and HD DVD discs. The ALC885 features 7.1 +2 High Definition Audio with a 106dB DAC SNR and a 101dB ADC SNR and it can perform lossless audio streaming at 96kHz/24 bit or higher. The […]

The State of Lossless Audio

Over the last few months there have been an increasing number of articles focusing on the online music industry’s (iTunes, Napster and Yahoo) use of low bitrate audio files and the problems that users may face once they start playing these files through there home stereo systems, media centers and other high end audio components.
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OptimFROG 4.520b has been released

A new version of OptimFROG has been released as well as a new SDK (1.210b). Future development
What is new in this version 4.520b:

successfully ported to Linux/amd64 as well as Darwin/ppc (PowerPC G3)

many internal source code improvements

all the newly created compressed files are completely backwards compatible (can be […]

Olive Unveils Opus

The makers of the Musica and Symphony have released an audiophile grade CD player that includes a quiet 400GB hard drive. Inside are 4 Burr-Brown 24-bit/192 kHz DACs with custom made temperature-compensated crystal oscillator to eliminate jitters and a processor based on the 32-bit IBM PowerPC. Currently the Opus can encode to AIFF, WAV, FLAC […]

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