Most streaming services today utilize the highly efficient AAC file format for better music playback. This essentially means that not a lot of people are reliant on the MP3 format anymore. Keeping ...

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 ...

The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits has officially halted its licensing program for "certain MP3 related patents and software," effectively making the long-standing music format free to ...

Well, I encoded a bunch of music into .aac thinking, "Apple's been touting this AAC stuff for years, I should be able to play it on my mac." <br><br>Mmmm, no. <br><br>So, is there a utility to convert ...

Building a digital music library used to be a simple matter of inserting a CD into your computer and encoding the songs as MP3 files. Today the process is a little more complicated. iTunes 4.5 and ...

Change is the only constant. This idiom becomes all the more pertinent when we talk about technology. In the times of highly efficient AAC file format for music playback, MP3 format perhaps outlived ...

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 ...

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