Hello ! As I have a lot of vinyl records that need cleaning, I decided to buy a record cleaning machine. I found out that many of those machines have a very high price. So the machine I can afford myself to buy is one of these: 1) Clearaudio Smart Matrix Record Cleaning Machine 2) VPI...

Hi, All ! I thought that it may be interesting to some of you to learn something about Russian audio market. In our country the average salary is 100-250 $ a month, so most people have to buy pirate CDs, which cost 1.5 - 2 $. Pirates sometimes try to please their purchasers and release CDs...

If you want to know which codec is the best, visit http://www.hydrogenaudio.org. This is a great forum dedicated to audio compression. There you can meet developers of different formats (MP3, Ogg Vorbis, MPC, etc.) If you want to know more about mp3 (e.g. why Lame encoder is better then...

Does anyone know how mpeg audio (e.g. layer 2 streams) is stored in mpeg1 video files ? I wanted to write a program that can extract audio from mpg files and have got some problems with it ... I found out that audio frames are usually stored in groups of 9-10 or 14-15 (depending on bitrate ?)...