Lossless formats like ALAC and FLAC grab headlines, but AAC is the best audio format for most everyday listeners.

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 ...

A few weeks ago the DVD Forum, the industry organization in charge of the DVD format, decided that Microsoft's Windows Media Video 9 format would be one of the mandatory playback standards for ...

Thunderstone Media has released an upgrade to iPodderX, the company’s utility for downloading and managing “podcasts,” which are radio shows that can be downloaded in MP3 format and transferred to an ...

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 ...

Editor's note: This article previously appeared in Wired News' sister publication, Webmonkey. Finding music on the internet is getting easier by the week as legit and less-than-legit file-trading ...

Last week, I forwarded a number of your questions (see comments) about the Xbox 360 to Major Nelson (aka Larry Hryb, director of programming for Xbox Live). Major Nelson was kind enough to get back to ...

Is Apple's audio format (AAC) completely proprietary?<BR><BR>Is there any way to change the tags on Apple's AAC audio format except with iTunes, which only temporarily alters the id tags?<BR><BR>It is ...