Digital sound is nothing more than numbers. What separates one container from another is how those numbers are packed, how much data (if any) is thrown away, and which devices understand the result.

The WRC is a new open source, embedded audio board based on the ESP32, offering a “tiny open source sample player with amazing capabilities” says its creator. The board allows youth easily upload ...

Since its standardization in 1991, MP3 has gone from being a little-known portion of a video file format to the kind of ubiquity that most brands can only dream of having. It's both widespread, with ...