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TL;DR: Windows 11 now supports Bluetooth LE Audio with super wideband stereo streaming, enabling improved low-latency, crystal-clear audio and chat for media, gaming, and calls. This update enhances ...

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Released a few years back, Codec is a free plugin from developer Lese that uses internet compression algorithms to give sounds a distinctive lo-fi character. Lese has just updated Codec to version 2.0 ...

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Android 16 adds support for running media codecs outside of their usual sandboxed process and within the app’s process. Doing this reduces the amount of inter-process communication that needs to ...