I've got wav files I recorded with a Griffin iTalk Pro which I want to convert to AAC to save file space. I noticed that iTunes has a nice option to convert to AAC for Podcast which optimizes for ...

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 ...

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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 ...

I compressed some video to MP4 recently (using Nero Recode) and then noticed afterward that I had a 60hz hum in the background of the audio. Since I no longer have the source video, I'd like to pull ...

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 ...

You can easily add music to a PowerPoint slideshow if you want to make your next presentation more engaging. You can add any MP3, MP4, WAV, or AAC file on your computer to your PowerPoint presentation ...

Hack #70 from iPod & iTunes Hacks by Hadley Stern (O’Reilly Media). Turn iTunes into an Ogg Vorbis–playing application and enjoy the fruits of open source ripping and playing. The MP3 and AAC file ...