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?

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 ...

无论是娱乐还是通信应用，MPEG音频编解码器用于所有最先进的消费电子、IT和通信设备中。从上世纪90年代末开始出现的mp3起，MPEG音频编解码器的发展从未间断过。mp3及其后续产品AAC在消费领域广为人知，对于HE-AAC或AAC-ELD等在后台运行的其他MPEG编解码器 ...

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If you've ever listened to an "audio book," such as those files that can be purchased from Audible.com, you know that they provide a "bookmark" feature that works both in iTunes and on the iPod. If ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this week’s column, I examine a host of iTunes questions. I look at a bug in iTunes 12, where deleting the genre tag creates a blank genre. I discuss an issue where a reader couldn’t import AAC ...

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 ...