Audacity provides an effective, minimally destructive way to lower the bit rate of an audio file. Lowering the bit rate lessens the quality of the audio file, but also decreases the file size. This ...

True story. Last night, while on an Amtrak train from Chicago to Detroit, I was trying to pass the time by watching Netflix on my laptop. Just one problem: The connectivity wasn’t great between cities ...

(2) The speed that digital audio and video files are encoded (compressed), measured in kilobits (Kb) and megabits (Mb) per second. For example, MP3 audio files can be created with bit rates from 16 ...

I’ve made no secret of my love for Windows Media Center, but for months I’ve been living with a glitch that almost drove me to TiVo. I call it the Blue Screen of Signal-Death. At random intervals, ...

Learn how video quality measurably impacts business performance. Read “Bit Rate and Business Model: The Science Behind How Our Bodies React to Video Quality.” With quality a huge concern for video ...