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 ...

Converting one audio file from one file format to another is super easy, and that is due to the many options we have. Many operating systems come with at least one tool designed for converting audio, ...

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.

Scenario: You’ve obtained an audio or video file that’s either in a format unsupported by the device you intend to play it on—an iOS device, traditional iPod, or your Mac, for example—or in a form ...

Converting an audio track to MP3 on the Mac is dead easy. Just open it with iTunes, and choose the File > Convert option from the menu bar. On iOS, though, there’s no native way to do this. There are ...

If you want to use an audio file as a ringtone in iOS, you can use Terminal and iTunes to convert and import tones to your device. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a ...