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 ...

Reader Jack wrote in the comments to How We Made Our Podcasts with a bit of information that I wanted to promote to the main page, because of its usefulness. After installing LAME, we then need to ...

Due to some hard drive problems, I need to rip all my cds again. I'm planning on using 192 or 224 mp3s for this. I know I could use EAC+lame, but I like to use iTunes to organize my music. So just ...

For most people, dropping a CD into their disc drive and clicking “Import” in iTunes is good enough. For music freaks, though, it’s not—and with good reason. Here’s how to digitize your tunes, the ...

Looking for a new stereophonic sound spectacular from your MP3s? Download the Fraunhofer IIS MP3 Surround player, MP3 Surround encoder and the MP3 Stereo eXtended converter. The no-cost eval apps, ...

I love music! I have hundreds of CDs in my collection, a few of which have survived since from the late 1980s. I have an original copy of Nirvana’s Nevermind, Foo Fighters debut album, Bush's Sixteen ...

This was done in Erlangen; the spin-off Opticom distributed an MP3 playback program for Windows computers. The free version only played 20-second snippets, the full version was marketed for little ...