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 ...

Learn how to rip CDs on Windows and Mac so that you can turn a physical format into a digital one. In ancient times—back in 2001—people knew how to do this, but much that should have been remembered ...

I already know about making sure DMA is enabled next time I rip something, but there has got to be a way around this.<BR><BR>In Windows I can rip a CD to MP3 via CDex and it doesn't have to extract ...

The New York Times covers how to rip a CD to one continuous track - like say, for an opera - in iTunes: The songs you want to join together must be adjacent to each other on the disc, which should not ...

Gracenote, the music identification company with controversial origins that helps CD ripping software identify CDs and provides acoustic recognition to Apple among others, announced that it will offer ...

Last week I looked into Ogg Vorbis and in the process discovered a Mac-only format conversion program by the name of Max. While Max can indeed convert your audio files from a variety of formats to Ogg ...

Music was first delivered on vinyl records, then on magnetic tape in one form or another, such as 8-tracks and cassettes. Optical media, better known as CDs, came later, and many wondered what would ...

Ed Rhee, a freelance writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area, is an IT veteran turned stay-at-home-dad of two girls. He focuses on Android devices and applications while maintaining a review blog ...

At yesterday's Sony event, we reviewed a few details about how the PS3 will handle music playback. The system will rip your own audio CDs to MP3 or ATRAC, logging ID details through Gracenote. Sony ...

My 25gig collection of audio is sourced from discs that I've bought, and it'd be very handy to compile some of these tracks onto CD-R to build up genre-specific playlists for my Xbox.