While housecleaning in our MP3 collection recently, we stumbled upon a disturbing behavior in iTunes 1.1: modifying song information without asking us beforehand. We realize that iTunes uses CDDB to ...

Solution for MP3/AAC files being recognized as QuickTime movies Yesterday we reported on an issue where some MP3 or AAC audio files are interpreted as QuickTime movie files in iTunes 4.9, causing some ...

Amazon.com has launched a public beta of Amazon MP3, a digital music store that provides DRM-free downloads of over 2 million songs from 180,000 artists and 20,000 labels. In comparison, Apple says ...

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 ...

Recently, Apple Computer found a way to add a million dollars a week to its bottom line. Not a bad trick. Their newfound source of revenue comes from the recently introduced iTunes online store. It is ...

Audiophiles now have a new way to get their music fix with the recent launch of Amazon MP3. Amazon MP3 is an HTML5-based web store that caters specifically to Android and iOS devices such as the ...

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