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 ...

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 ...

Thunderstone Media has released an upgrade to iPodderX, the company’s utility for downloading and managing “podcasts,” which are radio shows that can be downloaded in MP3 format and transferred to an ...

We've been the source of some confusion on that subject recently. An article published here 11 days ago quoted Bernhard Grill — one of the developers of the MP3 format and also of the AAC format for ...

Over the last 24 hours we've watched some bad reporting lead to even more bad reporting, all circling the same issue: Sony's decision to support AAC. The mainstream media, by and large, has picked ...

Do you know your OGG from your ALAC? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Digital music comes in many different formats – almost ...

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 ...

Is Apple's audio format (AAC) completely proprietary?<BR><BR>Is there any way to change the tags on Apple's AAC audio format except with iTunes, which only temporarily alters the id tags?<BR><BR>It is ...

The AAC announced Monday that it will incorporate an eight-team conference schedule and eliminate divisions for at least two seasons starting in 2020. The remodeled format comes on the heels of ...

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, ...