The world of digital music started making a bit more sense this morning, when Apple and EMI announced that the major label's music will be sold through the iTunes store without digital rights ...

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 ...

We've been the source of some confusion on that subject recently. An article published here 11 days ago quoted Bernhard Grill — one of the developers of the MP3 format and also of the AAC format for ...

Fraunhofer IIS, inventor of the ubiquitous MP3 music format, on Monday made a pitch to audio and computer makers to use its HD-AAC format. HD-AAC is a new digital music encoding format that Fraunhofer ...

Over the last 24 hours we've watched some bad reporting lead to even more bad reporting, all circling the same issue: Sony's decision to support AAC. The mainstream media, by and large, has picked ...

I've got wav files I recorded with a Griffin iTalk Pro which I want to convert to AAC to save file space. I noticed that iTunes has a nice option to convert to AAC for Podcast which optimizes for ...