I need to come up with a process to help my dad (and me) maintain his music library (~10k songs right now, all ripped from CD). Basically he needs to rip to Apple Lossless for archiving purposes and ...

Audio files come in a number of different formats. Some are lossy, such as AAC and MP3; they save space compared to the original files, but some of the original data is lost during compression. Some ...

Even if you don't own an iPod, it can be easy to get sucked into the AAC trap. It's the default format used by the popular iTunes Software to rip CDs, and the program will prompt you to convert WMAs ...