While it has apparently been around for some time, I just noticed the Xiph QuickTime components this morning. Xiph is a collection of QuickTime plugins that allow QuickTime or iTunes to play Ogg ...

If you’ve spent every spare musical minute within the confines of the iTunes window you might believe there are only five audio formats—MP3, AAC, WAV, AIFF, and Apple Lossless. It turns out, however, ...

Upon importing my music collection into itunes, im shocked to see that none of my ogg or flac formated files are viewable by itunes itself. I'm personally not attached to itunes itself so going to ...

We noticed a few problems with the firmware on the Archos 5 we got our hands on last month, and it now looks like the company is going some way towards addressing a few of those complaints with its ...

Audiophiles love FLAC files for their lossless fidelity, while Ogg and WMA files aren't widely supported. With free plug-ins, all three of those formats can be played and managed in iTunes. MacWorld ...

A good quality DAC (Digital to Analog Converter) is one of the crucial elements when it comes to deciding the kind of audio experience you can expect from a device. And at large, the same holds true ...

Awhile back, SanDisk released some fairly major firmware for both the Sansa Clip and the Sansa Fuze. Well, technically, the update for each is a different piece of software, but most of the fixes and ...

Digital music comes in many different formats – almost everyone knows MP3 thanks to Napster at the end of the last century, but what about OGG, AIFF, MQA or DSD? Confused? Don't worry, we're here to ...

Do you dislike proprietary formats? Are you an Open Source aficionado? What if I told you it was quite possible to liberate your iPod from such commercial vices? Let's go... The following statement ...

FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) has been updated to version 1.1.1 adding several optimizations and bug fixes. In the updated release optimizations have almost doubled the decoding speed on a G4 or G5 ...