John is a professional author, currently publishing evergreen and feature articles for Android Police. He discovered his passion for writing when he was very young, and enjoys how it challenges him ...

I love music! I have hundreds of CDs in my collection, a few of which have survived since from the late 1980s. I have an original copy of Nirvana’s Nevermind, Foo Fighters debut album, Bush's Sixteen ...

Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve reviewed audio products for CNET and worked as a freelance writer for ...

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 ...

I'm trying to find sources for purchasing FLAC music files online. One of my search results is for melodishop.com, which is selling albums at prices much lower than other online retailers. How can I ...

A Redditor built a blind hearing test to compare FLACs to MP3s of different bitrates, and commentors are humbled.

If you're looking for a portable MP3 player with FLAC capability, here are five of the best on the market. TV and home video editor Ty Pendlebury joined CNET Australia in 2006, and moved to New York ...

I'm not sure it's possible, at least in the EAC versions I've used. Why not just silently transcode to mp3 whenever you sync your library with the Zen? Most players these days support that feature in ...

If you stream music (and who doesn't these days) you've obviously come across abbreviations at the end of the audio files. The acronyms reading WAV, FLAC, MP3 and so on, are called audio codecs. You ...

I can hear that!'" In the attached video, Dunphy gives CBC's Deana Sumanac some pointers on telling the difference between FLAC and MP3 music files. Tune into The National Friday night for Sumanac's ...

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 ...