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No one ever sits and thinks about audio formats until you are sharing a WAV recording and see how much space it is eating up. FLAC isn’t much better in terms of size. Both keep the original sound ...

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.

Keep your game soundtrack downloads in FLAC and make smaller MP3 listening copies with Convertio, with bitrate calculations and a practical playback checklist.

I will soon be installing a new head unit in my car that will read a largish USB flash drive (64GB) containing my music collection in MP3 format. As it stands, my music collection is mostly a mix of ...

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, ...