When you download music from the Internet, you may sometimes download file formats that your default audio player, mobile phone or mp3 player does not support. Maybe it is a Flac, Ogg or Ape file, audio files that are not that commonly supported. If you are lucky the site that you have downloaded the music [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Audiophiles prefer the FLAC losless format over mp3 when it comes to listening to music. That’s fine if you have enough storage space to store the larger FLAC files, but not so much if you do not have enough storage space to store files that take up five times as much space as mp3 files. [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Lossless audio formats like flac or ape are different from mp3 or aac files. The latter have been compressed with a lossy compression which usually produces data that is different from the original (uncompressed) file. Lossless audio formats on the other hand can reconstruct the original data from the compressed data which is why music [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Regular readers already know that I recently switched from using XMPlay to AIMP2 which provides the better total package. One of the interesting functions of AIMP2 is to record Internet radio (yes XMPlay can do that as well). It took a while to find out how this function could be enabled in the player and [...]

Categories: Knowledge, Music and Video

Most burning tools that support the creation of audio CDs support only the most common formats by default. Those formats are normally mp3, wav or wma. Some suits support other formats as well but I never found a burning suit that supported all of the formats that I needed. One way to solve this issue would be to use plugins that would increase the supported formats, one plugin pack for Nero can be downloaded here. (Click on Nero Audio-Plug-Ins..)

Categories: Tools