Building a digital music library used to be a simple matter of inserting a CD into your Mac and encoding the songs as MP3 files. Today the process is a little more complicated. iTunes 4.5 not only ...

I want to convert some audio CD's to mp3 files. Is Nero5.5 capable of doing this? I have successfully converted mp3's to audio cd's with Nero.Their info says it is capable of mp3 encoding--does this ...

Due to some hard drive problems, I need to rip all my cds again. I'm planning on using 192 or 224 mp3s for this. I know I could use EAC+lame, but I like to use iTunes to organize my music. So just ...

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Reader Jack wrote in the comments to How We Made Our Podcasts with a bit of information that I wanted to promote to the main page, because of its usefulness. After installing LAME, we then need to ...

For most people, dropping a CD into their disc drive and clicking “Import” in iTunes is good enough. For music freaks, though, it’s not—and with good reason. Here’s how to digitize your tunes, the ...

Much as Apple and Amazon would be thrilled if you populated your iTunes library with nothing but tracks purchased from the iTunes Store and Amazon MP3, there’s a very good chance that you already have ...

The absolute lowest MP3 bit rate you should consider is 128kbps. This was often referred to as being CD quality, but it's far from being so. This bit rate will allow you to get much more music on to ...

This was done in Erlangen; the spin-off Opticom distributed an MP3 playback program for Windows computers. The free version only played 20-second snippets, the full version was marketed for little ...