We first mentioned Rogue Amoeba's MakeiPhoneRingtone droplet in our iPhone Ringtone how-to earlier this week. Since then, the company has updated the utility with a much more reliable method for ...

Solution for MP3/AAC files being recognized as QuickTime movies Yesterday we reported on an issue where some MP3 or AAC audio files are interpreted as QuickTime movie files in iTunes 4.9, causing some ...

The world of digital music started making a bit more sense this morning, when Apple and EMI announced that the major label's music will be sold through the iTunes store without digital rights ...

You’ve got some music files on your Mac, and they all look alike in the Finder. If you want to find which ones are AAC files and which are Apple Lossless, what do you do? Well, I’ve got the answer. I ...

Editor's note: This article previously appeared in Wired News' sister publication, Webmonkey. Finding music on the internet is getting easier by the week as legit and less-than-legit file-trading ...

Hack #70 from iPod & iTunes Hacks by Hadley Stern (O’Reilly Media). Turn iTunes into an Ogg Vorbis–playing application and enjoy the fruits of open source ripping and playing. The MP3 and AAC file ...

Most people don't think twice about the type of audio file they use, but audio formats quietly shape how we experience sound. They play a bigger role in our daily lives than we realize, whether ...