While not the most exciting audio format, the CD is still an excellent way to keep a physical media collection and cheaply acquire lossless digital music files. It's much cheaper to track down the ...

If you use an iPod or iTunes, you're familiar with the process of ripping songs from CD to convert them from their uncompressed audio file format, AIFF, to a compressed file, usually MP3 or AAC. The ...

It is often thought that "a cheap 3,000 yen external DVD drive is good enough, they are all the same." However, when ripping ...

Streaming solved the problem of having thousands of albums within reach, but it created another one for anyone with a substantial CD collection. Those discs may still contain music you own and want to ...