Sound is one of the many motivators of our day, whether it’s that song that powers you through an extra rep at the gym or that podcast you like to unwind to after a long day at work. As sound has ...

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.

When Peter Bliss sits back, closes his eyes and listens to a tune from his 4TB 67,000-song music library, he can almost see where the instruments are on a stage, hear every strum of the guitar, every ...

In this article, we are going to discuss ways to convert MIDI to MusicXML in Windows 11/10. MIDI aka Musical Instrument Digital Interface is basically a standard file format that stores music notation ...

CNET explains what FLAC is, where to buy music in the format, and how to play it on your phone, computer or hi-fi. TV and home video editor Ty Pendlebury joined CNET Australia in 2006, and moved to ...

QI want to upload my music collection to Google Music, but I have more than 1,000 songs in an “unsupported” format, which I converted into the Apple Lossless format from my own CDs with iTunes. Must I ...

With the 66th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles Sunday, Feb. 4, here’s a look at the modern world of music. The music business is doing well, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. The ...

PC Magazine reports Universal, Sony, Warner and EMI have developed a new digital album file format that appears to be in direct competition with Apple’s new “Cocktail” format. CMX – and Apple’s ...

An article on digital music formats in the July 13 Fast Forward section should have said Microsoft's Windows Media format dates to 1998. (Published 7/14/01) The mighty MP3 is getting more competition ...

MP3. It's the format that revolutionized the way music's been consumed since the late '90s. When Karlheinz Brandenburg, a German acoustics engineer, discovered that an audio file could be compressed ...