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 ...

Apple's push to increase the quality of songs distributed via iTunes has been formally realized in the company's Mastered for iTunes program—but does it really make music sound better? After our ...

Based on posts/responses on the forums, it appears there is still a significant amount of confusion regarding audio codecs and their implications. For clarification purposes, "MP3" is officially known ...

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 ...

Most people don't think twice about the type of audio file they use, but audio formats quietly shape how we experience sound. They play a bigger role in our daily lives than we realize, whether ...

You’ve got some music files on your Mac, and they all look alike in the Finder. If you want to find which ones are AAC files and which are Apple Lossless, what do you do? Well, I’ve got the answer. I ...

Erlangen, Germany — Fraunhofer IIS has announced the HD-AAC MPEG audio coding scheme that extends proven MPEG-4 AAC encoding to near- and true-lossless compression – enabling a new way of storing and ...

You can easily add music to a PowerPoint slideshow if you want to make your next presentation more engaging. You can add any MP3, MP4, WAV, or AAC file on your computer to your PowerPoint presentation ...

Hack #70 from iPod & iTunes Hacks by Hadley Stern (O’Reilly Media). Turn iTunes into an Ogg Vorbis–playing application and enjoy the fruits of open source ripping and playing. The MP3 and AAC file ...

If you’re importing a CD into iTunes, and you want several tracks—for example, movements in a symphony or chapters of an audiobook—to be combined into a single track, you can use iTunes’s “Join CD ...