Last week, CNET reported on an extension for Google’s Chrome web browser that let people scrape songs off of Spotify’s web player, for free, and save the music as MP3 files. This was obviously fairly problematic and possibly illegal, as far as browser extensions go, so Google hastily deleted the app from its Chrome app…
Ogg Vorbis has a super weird name but basically, it’s just like MP3 — except nobody has to pay for it, because it’s open source. Yes, MP3 is proprietary, even though it doesn’t feel that way to music fan. Some behind-the-scenes company or other typically foots the bill for encoding them. This is why Spotify uses…
This guest opinion was reposted with permission by its author, Monty Montgomery. In it, he outlines in detail why he thinks there is no scientific justification to high-resolution digital audio, like the expected “Pono” music format Neil Young is set to release soon. The article appeared after news first emerged that Neil Young and Steve Jobs had discussed a…
Mozilla, which makes the FireFox browser you might be reading this with, has a way to let regular webpages record audio and video and play them back with only a few lines of simple code rather than the more complicated Flash technology usually required for in-browser recording today. This might sound like a wonky technical…
