Fraunhofer IIS, inventor of the ubiquitous MP3 music format, on Monday made a pitch to audio and computer makers to use its HD-AAC format. HD-AAC is a new digital music encoding format that Fraunhofer ...

Charismac Engineering Inc. has added support for Apple’s new AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) format within Discribe, the company’s CD/DVD mastering software. Discribe allows you to create your own data CD ...

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 ...

The world of digital music started making a bit more sense this morning, when Apple and EMI announced that the major label's music will be sold through the iTunes store without digital rights ...

A few weeks ago the DVD Forum, the industry organization in charge of the DVD format, decided that Microsoft's Windows Media Video 9 format would be one of the mandatory playback standards for ...

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 ...

Hello AV geeks,<BR><BR>I'm trying to suss out a weird problem I'm having with my AAC files.<BR><BR>iTunes seems to disagree with my other devices in how an AAC file should be tagged. As I understand ...

MP3, the format that revolutionized the way we consume (and steal) music since the 90s, has been officially retired -- in a manner of speaking. The German research institution that created the format, ...