In conjunction with Wednesday’s release of iTunes 4.5, Apple has also posted an update to QuickTime, the company’s core audio and video media handling technology for both Mac OS and Windows. The new ...

FLAC for archival and to use as a lossless transcoding source. Ogg Vorbis for listening, currently using q9 quality (~320 kbps). q9 is overkill, but the files are still small enough that it's not an ...

Building a digital music library used to be a simple matter of inserting a CD into your computer and encoding the songs as MP3 files. Today the process is a little more complicated. iTunes 4.5 and ...

On top of this, dbPoweramp for Mac can encode using the Apple AAC encoder... in the past I was encoding on Windows (dbpoweramp didn't exist on Mac) and it used the Nero codec. Possible that it is ...