Amid the growing popularity of digital music, there is a move afoot to develop formats that would enable audio files to be played on consumer CD and DVD players as well as on personal computers.

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. In 1999, music consumption was shifting in a new direction. As home internet connections got faster, users discovered improvements that had ...

We have come a long way in consumer electronics and along the way we have had our share of formats, technologies and the acronyms to help us to remember them by. We're going to take a look at some of ...

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When it comes to discussions of digital audio, you’ll quickly run into an alphabet soup of acronyms: MP3, AAC, ALAC, FLAC, WAV, DSD, and so on. It’s practically endless. You’d think that with this ...

If you use iTunes or if you buy and download digital music, you’ll have come across a number of terms and abbreviations that describe digital audio files. This alphabet soup can be quite confusing.