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.

Q: My grandson is a great source of music and movies for me to enjoy. He often sends me links I download and watch on my old PC. But they’re in a wide variety of formats and some don’t work on my ...

[Music] welcome to another video from explaining computers.com this time we're going to look at audio file formats these can be divided into high quality formats that are not compressed high quality ...

A file format is a wrapper into which a system places video, audio and metadata. Stream transfers (using PAL, NTSC, SDI or even SDTI) will co-exist with file transfers in new television facilities. If ...

Apple's AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format) audio files are valued for their lossless and uncompressed attributes. But because no audio quality is lost in the encoding process, AIFF's can be rather ...

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Audiophiles love their audio files. Many Mac users swear by the AIFF format (Audio Interchange File Format), which was jointly developed by Apple and Electronic Arts back in the late 80s, according to ...

PowerPoint supports a number of common audio and video formats. We’ll go through the details and show you how to incorporate audio and video files into your presentation slides. The current versions ...