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.

Audio files come in a number of different formats. Some are lossy, such as AAC and MP3; they save space compared to the original files, but some of the original data is lost during compression. Some ...

I have a moral aversion to listening to mp3's so I've never bothered to do this before...<P>I have a bunch of mp3s that need to be burned to an audio cd, what is the best way to do it? Will converting ...

fre:ac is a program just over 7MB, and from what we have seen of it so far, it works for the most part. When it comes down to format support, we know users can convert content to MP3, MP4/M4A, WMA, ...