Offline music is coming back with a vengeance, and if you're on the brink of shaking free from streaming platforms and storing your music locally (or just looking to use your soundbar's USB port 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 ...

This is a topic we’ll be following closely through the coming weeks, but the first details are emerging of Apple’s new AAC file format used in iTunes 4 and the iTunes Music Store, and what it means ...

I have ripped all of my CD collection to Apple Lossless Format. I am going to compress them so I can carry them around with me on my iPod. I'd like to get some opinions on what is the "optimal" ...

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 ...

DVD-Audio, one of the two formats (the other being Super Audio CD, or SACD) vying to be the next-generation music format, will not be freely rippable like CDs are today. However, some discs will ...

Building a digital music library used to be a simple matter of inserting a CD into your Mac and encoding the songs as MP3 files. Today the process is a little more complicated. iTunes 4.5 not only ...

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 ...

Last week, I forwarded a number of your questions (see comments) about the Xbox 360 to Major Nelson (aka Larry Hryb, director of programming for Xbox Live). Major Nelson was kind enough to get back to ...