While not the most exciting audio format, the CD is still an excellent way to keep a physical media collection and cheaply acquire lossless digital music files. It's much cheaper to track down the ...

I can’t remember the last time I played music on a spinning compact disc. It’s been the better part of 20 years since I spent countless hours ripping CDs into a bloated MP3 collection, trying to call ...

Each time I look at a new MP3 player, I feel this urge to reboot my music collection—to sacrifice a weekend or two and re-rip all my CDs onto one system so I have everything in a consistent format.

If you use an iPod or iTunes, you're familiar with the process of ripping songs from CD to convert them from their uncompressed audio file format, AIFF, to a compressed file, usually MP3 or AAC. The ...

So I've used the LAME codec in the past but all I did was switch the .dll in the program I was using with the LAME .dll. The problem is that the program was some freeware cheaply made non-featuristic ...

One common complaint about iTunes is that it does things that you don’t want it to do. For example, when you view music by artist, iTunes applies album artwork to the Artists list, but you don’t get ...