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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Based on posts/responses on the forums, it appears there is still a significant amount of confusion regarding audio codecs and their implications. For clarification purposes, "MP3" is officially known ...

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 ...

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 ...

As many iTunes-using TiVo owners know, there is a hack for playing unprotected AAC files on a TiVo via the "Home Media Option." The box would re-encode ACC files to the MP3 format on the fly, but this ...

A good quality DAC (Digital to Analog Converter) is one of the crucial elements when it comes to deciding the kind of audio experience you can expect from a device. And at large, the same holds true ...