AptX Adaptive is Qualcomm’s latest solution to bad Bluetooth audio

If you stream music from an Android phone to a pair of wireless headphones, there's a very good chance your devices are relying on a compression algorithm known as AptX, which is supposed to squeeze high-quality sound into the limited bandwidth provided by a Bluetooth connection. But existing AptX options have their limits, so Qualcomm — the company behind AptX since 2015 — is introducing a new version that's supposed to grow and contract the size of audio data to meet the demands of whatever and wherever you're actually streaming. The new version of AptX is called AptX Adaptive, and its key feature is the ability to compress audio at a variable bitrate. That means if you're in an environment with a lot of competing wireless signals,... Continue reading… via The Verge - Tech Posts https://ift.tt/2N9Qkn4 If New feed item from http://www.theverge.com/tech/rss/index.xml, t Unsubscribe from these notifications or sign in to manage your Email Applets.