I wanted to share an interesting tool that I setup for my sister who is an avid iTunes user but also has a HTPC running Media Center Edition. Until now iTunes content was restricted to iTunes but with this tool iTunes protected content such as movies, music and TV shows can be played through […]

The WavPack 4.41 beta3 is now available bringing with it the following features. Keep your eyes peeled for the final version of 4.41.

Speedup optimizations from the first two betas, plus an other. This includes MMX utilization for encoding 24-bit stereo.
WavPack now refuses to encode WAV files over 4 GB total or WAV files with over […]

Instead of posting each piece of relevant DRM news I am going to sum up the week (if there is enough activity) or the month in one post. This seems to be a happy medium in presenting you with DRM news. And now onto the news.
1. Norway’s Liberal Party Wants to Ban DRM
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While we typically focus on lossless audio formats one of the goals of The L.A.B is to help you achieve the best audio quality possible. With that in mind we couldn’t resist showing you an interesting approach to some Ipod docking stations.
Two UK companies have developed Ipod docking stations that implement vaccum tubes, vacuum tubes […]

If you are looking to have TIVO-like control over your favorite internet radio stations then we might have a solution for you. iRecordMusic is a internet audio recorder with support for realtime encoding to AAC, Ogg Vorbis, MP3 (LAME) and FLAC. It also has the ability to schedule recordings using iCal which is one of […]

Lossless compression has begun to be adopted by companies all across the audio industry and the sound recording industry is no exception. Field recording provider Sound Devices who is popular in the taping and live show recording community is adding FLAC support to the latest firmware update for their 7 series recorders. With the implementation […]

The developer of the new lossless format TAK has been busy releasing the final version of TAK 1.0.1 which includes TAK Applications 1.0.1, TAK Winamp Plugin 1.0.2, TAK SDK 1.0.2 and the TAK Decoding library 1.0.2.
If you would like to follow TAK’s development check out the following thread over at Hydrogen Audio Forums.
TAK Development Thread […]

There is a new member of Hyundai’s large line of PMP’s that supports lossless audio. The new NH-260 with its 2.4″ TFT screen supports both FLAC and WMA Lossless.
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I chose an interesting time to be out of town. The last 3-4 weeks have brought many changes, announcements and opinions to the DRM battle.
On Monday Apple and EMI announced that EMI’s entire catalog will be made available DRM-Free at 256 kbps AAC and users who previously downloaded lower quality formats can upgrade for 30 […]

At this years Spring EHX (Electronic House Expo) Scott Varner from Niveus Media made an interesting presentation that I thought some of you might be interested in checking out.
Scott discusses ways of getting high quality audio from your media center PC.
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We recently came across an interesting lossless audio tool for MAC OS X users. The X Lossless Decoder (XLD) can encode, decode and play a variety of lossless audio formats.
Supported formats include:

Ogg) FLAC (.flac/.ogg)
Monkey’s Audio (.ape)
Wavpack (.wv)
TTA (.tta)
Apple Lossless (.m4a) [10.4 only]
AIFF, WAV, etc

Compatible with 10.3 and up XLD is actively developed and was recently […]

Known for developing solid, feature rich DAP’s and PMP’s Cowon has announced a new PMP that lives up to the Cowon name. As with previous devices the Q5 supports the usual array of audio formats but what is special about the Q5 is that it not only supports Flac but also adds support for Monkley’s […]

The folks over at Freeverse have released the latest version of there recording and editing software Sound Studio 3. This latest version adds much needed support for Apple Lossless as well as ADTS AAC, NeXT/Sun Audio and Ogg Vorbis. Also new to version 3.5 is a ID3 tag and iTunes metadata editor. Sound Studio […]

I have been without access to the internet for the last 8 days while on vacation but was finally able to connect at the Kansas City Airport while waiting for my flight back to NC. I think this is the longest I have been off the web in years. Be on the look out for […]