SoundCloud Makes Its Streams Sound Worse

SoundCloud users have accused the music streaming service from lowering the quality of its audio streams. SoundCloud stands accused of switching from streaming 128 kbps MP3s to 64 kbps Opus files. Which, at first sight, looks like a terrible decision. While this shouldn’t necessarily mean a reduction in sound quality, SoundCloud users with a keen
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10 Free Ringtones That Sound Like Real Phones

Changing your ringtone is one of the best ways to personalize your phone, but many people don’t bother to swap out the default ringtone on their devices. How many times have you heard this in public and mistakenly thought it was yours? Thankfully, you have thousands of possibilities for a better ringtone. We’ve previously shown you
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How to Make Your Music Streaming App Sound Better

Why do CDs sound better than MP3s? Why are vinyl records still a thing? The answer to both of these questions is audio quality. Even though we now stream most of our music, we instinctively know it doesn’t sound as good as what we heard on our old CDs. Thankfully there are ways to make
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Sound Advice: Are Apple’s Free EarPods Really That Bad?

I’ve recently misplaced a pair of decent Klipsch earphones. As I’m partial to using over-ear headphones most of the time, I haven’t managed to justify a replacement yet. As a stop-gap, I’ve been reduced to relying on one of the seven or so pairs of Apple EarPods I have lying around the house whenever I want to
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5 Amazing Sound FX You Can Easily Make Using Audacity

Audacity, the popular open source audio editor, is great for editing podcasts, recording home demos, perhaps recording study notes. You can use it to record other audio on your computer, and tweak voice-overs for video projects, such as YouTube reaction videos. But there’s a strong chance you’re not using Audacity to its full capability. The
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