When organising your digital music collection, you might be struck by the number of different audio file formats in your library. Almost everyone's heard of MP3, but what about OGG, AIFF, MQA or DSD?

Digital sound is nothing more than numbers. What separates one container from another is how those numbers are packed, how much data (if any) is thrown away, and which devices understand the result.

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 ...

Solution for MP3/AAC files being recognized as QuickTime movies Yesterday we reported on an issue where some MP3 or AAC audio files are interpreted as QuickTime movie files in iTunes 4.9, causing some ...

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, ...

It looks to me that apple audio products like AirPods handle audio transmission better than the standard Bluetooth audio. It will send the actual aac file to the audio device to be decoded on the ...

OvoLab has released AAChoo, a US$15 utility for converting MP3 songs to AAC (Advanced Audio Coding). AAC audio files are supported by iTunes 4 and Apple’s third generation of iPods, as well as older ...

An application called Playfair has been released. This application takes protected AACs from the iTunes Music Store and decrypts them into unprotected AACs. From the site: It takes one of the iTMS ...

Do you know your OGG from your ALAC? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Digital music comes in many different formats – almost ...