Lossless audio over wireless links has long been constrained by bandwidth. In this interview, Alexander Tschekalinskij, Senior Engineer in the Low Delay Audio Coding department at Fraunhofer IIS, explains how LC3plus Lossless adapts to fluctuating bandwidth and what its recent inclusion in an ETSI standard means for the audio industry.
xHE-AAC and MPEG-D DRC Mandatory for Android Pie Devices
Earlier this month, Google announced the general availability of Android 9 “Pie”, along with the first devices incorporating the latest release of Google’s mobile operating system. Android Pie comes with a string of major upgrades in terms of audio playback, since the xHE-AAC audio codec and MPEG-D DRC Loudness and Dynamic Range metadata, both substantially developed by Fraunhofer IIS, are mandatory components of the operating system. The xHE-AAC implementation used by default in...
