What is Dolby?

Dolby Laboratories, Inc., often shortened to Dolby Labs, is an American company specializing in audio noise reduction and audio encoding/compression. Dolby licenses its technologies to consumer electronics manufacturers.

Technologies

1. Analog audio noise reduction:

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Macgo Free Mac Media Player Commented by CNET as Powerful Media Player on Mac

As we all know that there are plenty of audio, video and image formats, however, despite the amount of available media formats people have already developed, it is not always easy to find one perfect media player for all the formats you want to play on Mac. Macgo Free Mac Media Player has been well received by CNET editors as a powerful media player on Mac recently, and this review has been reproduced on Yahoo News. To verify that Free Mac Media Player is a great media player for Mac users, here’s a comparison among Free Mac Media Player from Macgo and three media players of Apple Mac.

  1. Macgo Free Mac Media Player V2.11.1

Since being introduced several years ago, Mac Media Player works as all-in-one media player software for almost all media categories and formats. It has offered a solution for those who want to open several media files in a single, streamlined interface. Although iTunes can play almost everything that you have downloaded, it can be clunky and will add that content to your library, also QuickTime can’t play all media file types.

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What is MP3?

MP3 is a digital music format for creating high-quality sound files. It has transformed the way people buy and listen to music. MP3 is an audio-specific format that was designed by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) as part of its MPEG-1 standard and later extended in the MPEG-2 standard. The use in MP3 of a lossy compression algorithm is designed to greatly reduce the amount of data required to represent the audio recording and still sound like a faithful reproduction of the original uncompressed audio for most listeners. An MP3 file that is created using the setting of 128 kbit/s will result in a file that is about 1/11 the size of the CD file created from the original audio source. An MP3 file can also be constructed at higher or lower bit rates, with higher or lower resulting quality.

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