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 ...

I created some audio discs of music I was putting into my CD changer in one vehicle. I wanted to play the same music in my other car so I decided to re-import the audio discs as MP3 to be burned onto ...

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 ...

MP3 is the file format that changed the whole world beyond the music industry. It eventually affected the entire entertainment industry, gave Apple a new mandate when PCs were conquering the computing ...

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 ...

Mounting horror at the choice of AAC as audio codec for EMI's DRM-free music downloads at the iTunes store? See above how to do it in iTunes. Alternatives: WinAMP is the best transcoding software for ...

MP3, the format that revolutionized the way we consume (and steal) music since the 90s, has been officially retired -- in a manner of speaking. The German research institution that created the format, ...