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.

MP3 is the most commonly used file format for audio files, but did you know that the OGG file format offers better audio quality? An OGG file is a compressed audio file similar to an MP3 file but with ...

Audio files come in a number of different formats. Some are lossy, such as AAC and MP3; they save space compared to the original files, but some of the original data is lost during compression. Some ...

Scenario: You’ve obtained an audio or video file that’s either in a format unsupported by the device you intend to play it on—an iOS device, traditional iPod, or your Mac, for example—or in a form ...

While the format works well with Windows Media Player, it isn’t the best for other media players, many of which do not support the format. Thus, users prefer to convert the WMA format files format to ...

Apple Music can still connect to the iTunes store on the internet and download music and multimedia files and it can also easily convert CDA music to an MP3 format. In this article, we'll walk you ...

Many times people will have audiobooks in iTunes that are lumped with the rest of their music. Here is how to convert and import them so iTunes recognizes them as audiobooks. Topher Kessler MacFixIt ...