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I will soon be installing a new head unit in my car that will read a largish USB flash drive (64GB) containing my music collection in MP3 format. As it stands, my music collection is mostly a mix of ...

Digital sound is nothing more than numbers. What separates one container from another is how those numbers are packed, how much data (if any) is thrown away, and which devices understand the result.

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 ...

I'm in the process of transcoding my music collection into ALAC and MP3 (I really wish Apple would just offer native FLAC support). I've come across a few files that dbpoweramp says are corrupt, but ...