I created some audio discs of music I was putting into my CD changer in one vehicle. I wanted to play the same music in my other car so I decided to re-import the audio discs as MP3 to be burned onto ...

When comparing newly-updated iTunes Plus 256kbps AAC files with their 128kbps protected predecessors earlier, I noticed that the new files sounded noticeably louder than the old ones. The difference ...

Solution for MP3/AAC files being recognized as QuickTime movies Yesterday we reported on an issue where some MP3 or AAC audio files are interpreted as QuickTime movie files in iTunes 4.9, causing some ...

One of the biggest announcements made by Apple during the recent Macworld Expo was the news that, soon, all music sold by the iTunes Store will be free of digital rights management (DRM) restrictions.

If you’ve bought albums on iTunes, or ripped CDs into its library, then you’ll notice that when you want to move them to another device they might not be compatible. This is because Apple uses the AAC ...

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 ...