Even if you don't own an iPod, it can be easy to get sucked into the AAC trap. It's the default format used by the popular iTunes Software to rip CDs, and the program will prompt you to convert WMAs ...

I like iTunes. I don't like dealing with AAC files when I have a portable MP3 player, a car stereo that plays MP3s, and a home DVD player that plays MP3s. I'm not going for quality here, I'm going for ...

Building a digital music library used to be a simple matter of inserting a CD into your Mac and encoding the songs as MP3 files. Today the process is a little more complicated. iTunes 4.5 not only ...

Digital music comes in many different formats – almost everyone knows MP3 thanks to Napster at the end of the last century, but what about OGG, AIFF, MQA or DSD? Confused? Don't worry, we're here to ...

The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits has officially halted its licensing program for "certain MP3 related patents and software," effectively making the long-standing music format free to ...

I'm a little late but I'm finally getting around to "digitizing" my music collection. I can't decide on whether or not to use MP3 or AAC encoding. For the most part, I get the impression that AAC is ...

Audio codecs are one of the fundamental building blocks of modern media systems. The first and still most prominent MPEG audio codec is mp3, which first appeared on the market in 1998. Since then, ...