It is great to see new tools and utilities that enhance the management of lossless audio files. One of these tools is AutoFlac. AutoFlac is a script that works with EAC (Exact Audio Copy) to create individual Flac files or a single Flac file along with .Cue and .Log file creation. There is a thread […]

I have been working on transfering my wife’s first radio shows from tape to FLAC. In researching the project Audacity quickly rose to the top as a great solution for recording and editing. Audacity 1.32 which is still in beta adds a bunch of useful new features including FLAC encoding, project saving and recovery […]

Roxio just released RecordNow 9 Music Lab Premier, the latest version of their audio management and creation tool has a long list of features including web radio capture, playlist creation, mobile phone ring creation tool and noise removal to name a few. The feature we are most interested in is the addition of support for FLAC. Other […]

Actions Semiconductor provides System-On-Chip solutions for portable consumer electronics and has just announced there new Actions’ Series 13 product family. What is exciting about the Series 13 family is the support for a wide range of audio and video formats including MP3, WMA, OGG, Audible audio, WAV, APE. Samples have been sent to companies with […]

With an expected release this month, the MediaReady MC is the fourth generation of media center PC’s from MediaReady. The MediaReady MC Digital Home Entertainment Center has all of the features you would expect from a solid HTPC but also includes a variety of audio formats like CD Audio, WAV, MP3, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, […]

Envive, Inc. has been busy announcing a variety of products this month including a software suite called Panorama. The Panorama suite is touted as being an all in one solution for serving up media as well as controlling home automation all at a affordable price point. There are three servers including Envive Panorama Cinema Server […]

Version 0.7 has brought big improvements to this lossless audio application for the MAC OS X operating system. MAX can encode and decode to over 20 formats including MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, Apple Lossless, Speex, AIFF, and WAVE which makes it a must have for any MAC users who need to convert their lossless […]

We have seen an increasing number of media player software that support the more exotic lossless audio formats. With that in mind my thought is…….get it together Microsoft and Apple! People want to have a choice and be able to play their favorite format in their favorite media player. Until then we will search high […]

An interesting article on Apple’s attitude when other companies want to use it’s Apple Lossless format.
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A very interesting article has shown up over at MediaLoper.com detailing some of the events that seem to signal the decline of DRM music. They list specific instances where the attitude and content on many of the major online download sites like iTunes and Amazon has started to change or is in the process of […]

The interest in QuickTime plug-ins continues with QuickTime Pooch Exporter Plug-in. The first official release is available but is for MAC OS X 10.4 users only.
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This has been a big week for Mac users with the iPhone and the AppleTV being announced in a single day. Early reports show that both iTV and the iPhone support Apple Lossless but I haven’t been able to confirm that the iPhone supports Apple Lossless. The word is that the iPhone has all of […]

It’s that time of year again, when companies start releasing sneak peeks of up and coming products as well as products that will never see any more action than the floor of a convention center. With CES 2007 just getting started new product sightings are getting more common. One such product is Netgear’s EVA800. The […]

A company called MSB Technology has some new products for Ipod users who are trying to get the best audio quality possible from there Ipod. MSB Tecnology offers modification services that “upgrade” your Ipod by bypassing the internal DAC which performs the Digital to Analog conversion. This upgrade enables digital output which can be used […]

A new lossless codec is in in development, TAK formally known as YALAC (Yet Another Lossless Audio Compressor) is the latest lossless format and is currently in beta. A thread following the testing of TAK can be found over at the HydrogenAudio Forums.
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