My parents recently got the equipment for making digital copies of their old record albums (yay!!!!). They sent me a copy of one album, but they made two .wav files - one of each side. I'd like to ...

I'm very new to downloaded music, but my understanding is that an mp3 can be converted to a wav file and be played on a regular cd player. I have a converter program (I forget the name) and use Ahead ...

Digital sound is nothing more than numbers. What separates one container from another is how those numbers are packed, how much data (if any) is thrown away, and which devices understand the result.

Native Instruments — best known for its DJ and music production software — is rolling out a new royalty-free audio format that could be a big deal for professional and amateur remixers alike. The ...

If you stream music (and who doesn't these days) you've obviously come across abbreviations at the end of the audio files. The acronyms reading WAV, FLAC, MP3 and so on, are called audio codecs. You ...