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 ...

Digital music comes in many different formats – almost everyone knows MP3 thanks to Napster at the end of the last century, but what about OGG, AIFF, MQA or DSD? Confused? Don't worry, we're here to ...

Does anyone have any recent experience getting non-DRM versions of “Protected AAC audio file” tracks in their iTunes/Music.app library? The advice for getting non-DRM versions seems to have varied ...

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 ...

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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.

Digital music comes in many different formats – almost everyone knows MP3 thanks to Napster at the end of the last century, but what about OGG, AIFF, MQA or DSD? Confused? Don't worry, we're here to ...