Lossless formats like ALAC and FLAC grab headlines, but AAC is the best audio format for most everyday listeners.

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Audio files come in a number of different formats. Some are lossy, such as AAC and MP3; they save space compared to the original files, but some of the original data is lost during compression. Some ...

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 ...

Even if you don't own an iPod, it can be easy to get sucked into the AAC trap. It's the default format used by the popular iTunes Software to rip CDs, and the program will prompt you to convert WMAs ...

Since you already have everything lossless, it doesn't really make much difference. I would do them at 128 or 160, and then re-do any at a higher bitrate if you can hear artifacts on those tracks ...

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 ...

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 ...