Tag Archives: mp3

Apple iPhone OS 3.0 shines fresh light (and enmity) on A2DP Stereo Bluetooth

By mtc | Published: June 25, 2009
...something funky is definitely going on with the Bluetooth stereo audio performance on the iPhone. Your suspicions are not unwarranted.
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iPhone 3.0 will support Stereo Bluetooth. Overall, very cool, but caveat emptor.

By mtc | Published: March 19, 2009
Stereo Bluetooth support on iPhone is coming with iPhone OS 3.0.  Welcome news for many, but beware of the reduced audio quality you will get from many existing 3rd party A2DP devices.  Generic A2DP only support SBC compression format for wireless transmission, and therefore you will get nasty transcoding (or tandem) artifacts resulting in muddy, [...]
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Thirteen years after playing my first mp3 file, I think we’re on to something…

By mtc | Published: February 10, 2009
After spending a considerable amount of time looking for product opportunities in the digital audio device world (and finding one) for the better part of five years, and while being a chronic early adopter and experimenter of all things web 2.0 and similar, I’ve gleaned some “truths” that I thought I’d put down here. I [...]
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