The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits has officially halted its licensing program for "certain MP3 related patents and software," effectively making the long-standing music format free to ...

Over the last 24 hours we've watched some bad reporting lead to even more bad reporting, all circling the same issue: Sony's decision to support AAC. The mainstream media, by and large, has picked ...

Well, I encoded a bunch of music into .aac thinking, "Apple's been touting this AAC stuff for years, I should be able to play it on my mac." <br><br>Mmmm, no. <br><br>So, is there a utility to convert ...

Fraunhofer IIS, inventor of the ubiquitous MP3 music format, on Monday made a pitch to audio and computer makers to use its HD-AAC format. HD-AAC is a new digital music encoding format that Fraunhofer ...