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.

If you’re a command line aficionado and you want to play an audio file, there’s no need to leave the Terminal. There are Terminal commands you can use to not just play audio, but to convert files as ...

Now that your shortcut is set up, play the video you want to extract audio from and let the shortcut do the rest. While the video is playing, tap the share icon in the bottom-right corner, then select ...

M3U is a computer file in the format of a text file that stores a multimedia playlist. Originally implemented in WinAMP and currently supported in many applications, like Juk and iTunes, the M3U file ...

Golden ears of the world, unite! While other people are happy with the incredible convenience that listening to MP3s and AACs on an iOS device offers—thousands of songs, anytime, anywhere—audiophiles ...

Elyse Betters Picaro is the former Editor-in-Chief of Pocket-lint and the former Operations Manager for Valnet's Consumer Tech brands, including Pocket-lint, Android Police, and XDA. She is based in ...

A new, high-resolution audio format has just launched on Spotify. Spotify announced Lossless Listening on Wednesday, Sept. 10. The new feature allows users to stream music in 24-bit/44.1 kHz FLAC, the ...

I sometimes want to use my own song as a ringtone or notification alert. It wasn’t always the case, but doing this has become effortless with Android. This guide will show you how to set an MP3 file ...

After four years, Spotify finally made good on its promise to add a high-fidelity, “lossless” audio setting to its platform last week. The new setting, which sits above the service’s “very high” audio ...