Is there a streaming audio player (i.e., internet radio) that will play AAC streams under OS X, and isn't VLC? [more inside]
posted on Jul 2, 2008 - 9 answers

What's the best way to organize and re-tag my enormous MP3 library? (iTunes, Mac 10.5, 20k+ songs) [more inside]
posted on Jun 15, 2008 - 21 answers

ItunesFilter: I have too much music! Help me manage my XML iTunes library! [more inside]
posted on Sep 12, 2007 - 16 answers

AAC file possibly getting blocked by overprotective Windows. What can I do about it? [more inside]
posted on Jul 9, 2007 - 1 answers

Can anyobdy help with automatically converting MP3's to AAC's in iTunes WITHOUT duplicating the file? [more inside]
posted on Jan 27, 2007 - 21 answers

How can I convert AAC sound files to MP3 files? For some reason, Powerpoint will not let me insert AAC files as sound files, so I'm looking for an easy way to convert about a dozen short AAC files so Powerpoint can recognize them.
posted on Nov 12, 2006 - 7 answers

Audio separates. Looking for standalone hard-disk based mp3 player. [more inside]
posted on Oct 24, 2006 - 10 answers

I just bought a new 8gb ipod nano. I've got about 11gbs I want to shove onto the player. So, I'm thinking about stepping down the bit rates of my mp3s. How should I do it? [more inside]
posted on Sep 22, 2006 - 21 answers

Are there any MP3 players that will play .acc files other than an iPOD, or am I screwed [more inside]
posted on Apr 21, 2006 - 14 answers

How do I listen to an APE file? [more inside]
posted on Jan 29, 2006 - 11 answers

How to transcode files from flac and shn to aac or mp3 using OS X? What UNIXy tools will help me? [more inside]
posted on Jan 28, 2006 - 7 answers

Any good iPod alternatives that support aac?
posted on Nov 21, 2005 - 30 answers

What's the best way to regularly back up 10-15 gigs of music? [more inside]
posted on Jun 16, 2005 - 16 answers

Has anyone tried to fight the RIAA and Movie Studios by arguing that copyrights can be interpreted laterally instead of just horizontally? [more inside]
posted on Apr 17, 2005 - 19 answers

Do you think that 128kbps AAC files are good enough? [more inside]
posted on Mar 31, 2005 - 19 answers

My iPod is full. I used to encode MP3s at 128k, more recently VBR at 80%. Can AAC give me quality around the latter with a file size smaller than the former?
posted on Jan 14, 2005 - 8 answers

Waugh! (Pronounced the Snoopy way or the Evelyn way.) My iTunes will no longer burn AAC files onto CD. I've followed Fearless Leader's lead and de-DMRed all my Apple Music Store purchases with hymn, but I can't burn protected songs that have been hymned, protected songs that haven't been hymned or unprotected songs that used to be hymned. (I guess I didn't try an AAC rip since I mostly rip to mp3, so there's a missing data point.) When I go to burn a playlist, it deselects all the AAC tracks, although it will burn mp3s made from unprotected AAC files. Does anyone know what's up? Is there another Mac app for making audio CDs from AAC files? I'm not much of an audiofile, but don't want to go through the quality loss of converting 128 kbps AAC to 128 kbps mp3 for all these songs.
posted on Dec 8, 2004 - 3 answers

PC verson of iTunes: all my mp3 & aac files are on my C drive, which is almost full. I want to lighten the load on that drive by moving all the songs to my E drive, which has much more space. Is there a way to do this without wrecking iTune's database? I don't want to have to re-import everything.
posted on Oct 21, 2004 - 6 answers

iTunes question..what's the best way to turn protected AACs into regular AACs for a large amount of files?
posted on Sep 9, 2004 - 14 answers

I've been buying my wife tracks from iTunes and putting them on her Archos Jukebox. Since the Archos doesn't accept the aac format, I have to burn them from Archos onto CDs and then rip the CDs back into my PC and then download the ripped files onto her Jukebox. (I don't feel like I'm cheating Apple out of revenue, because only my wife listens to this music.) [More Inside.]
posted on Sep 2, 2004 - 36 answers

Crackling MP3s/AACs. I'm encoding with iTunes, and a lot of my tracks have a noticeable crackle about three seconds in. It's regardless of choosing AAC or MP3 as my format. What's causing it and how can I fix it?
posted on May 4, 2004 - 7 answers

What is the best Windows application for creating reports of digital music collections? I need it to support both MP3 and AAC. I would prefer customizable HTML output but would settle for Text. I have tried several popular applications but none have supported AAC and their reporting capabilites have been minimal. I am looking for something that can create reports with just artist and album titles as well as the more typical every file/song reports.
posted on Apr 4, 2004 - 7 answers

If I rip my CDs with iTunes, and select the "AAC Encoder," will the files be any less portable than MP3s? Can most MP3 player apps/devices handle them? Are they all intrinsically copy-protected? Are there real quality benefits? (I'm asking on behalf of someone who has already invested serious time in ripping, using iTunes' - you guessed it - default settings).
posted on Feb 3, 2004 - 15 answers