Audio Software

Too often, every song you put on your computer and mp3 player is set a predetermined volume. While one song may play loud, the next song could be difficult to hear. To make your music play louder...

Windows Media Player is Microsoft's media library software that allows users to play audio and view video and images on their computers. In addition to playing audio files, Media Player can also...

Capturing audio used to be the province of tape and audiocassette recorders. However, many computers -- laptops especially -- come with integrated microphones, thus affording these systems the...

An M4A file is a file that is encoded with the Apple Lossless Encoder. This type of file is saved in the MPEG-4 container format and is similar to a MP4 file without the video component. M4A...

Some versions of iPod can play video formats as well as music like MP3s. Since DVDs are normally in a physical disk form, though, you can't use them on your iPod. You can work around this problem...

While most mp3 stores now sell DRM free downloads, audiobooks remain locked down. Once you remove the DRM from your audiobooks you'll be able to use them anywhere - not just where Audible and...

If your the type that likes listening to music and you want to carry it everywhere you go, but you don't know how to burn the music on a cd. Well today is your lucky day. This article is going to...

You can create a custom audio CD library of MP3 files by using the free iTunes software. iTunes is available for the Mac and Windows operating systems. The software will burn the CD in the...

WinMX was a file-sharing program used to download music, games, videos, etc. until a lawsuit surfaced against the company in September of 2005 and support for connection problems (along with any...

The RealPlayer program is a software utility designed to play most types of audio and video files. It also has its own RealPlayer file extension that can't be opened by many other audio programs....

Windows Media Player 9 is an audio/video software package created and sold by Microsoft. The Media Player was bundled with other Microsoft programs installed on computer systems running Windows 98...

A QuickTime playlist is a snippet of XML code that is used to force content to play in a QuickTime player when invoked from a webpage. QuickTime playlists may be created using the Export function...

Apple's iTunes has a convenient, easy to use interface that has rapidly made it the most popular program for managing all of your music, video, and media files. If you've been using the program...

You've created a home movie in windows media video format, and now you want to use the audio separately. Maybe you want to put it on your mp3 player, or maybe you want to add it to your music...

LAME V0 Mp3 is widely considered the standard in high end audio encoding. An mp3 encoded at V0 is thought to be indistinguishable from the CD it was created from. Most people cant tell the...

FLAC is a type of lossless audio format. Unlike mp3, files encoded in FLAC don't are 100% identical to their CD versions. This tutorial will show you how to encode FLAC using an Apple Mac...

Microsoft's Zune device is limited to the default program that comes with it for managing music and media files. Apple's iTunes provides a much easier, and more popular, interface that allows you...

While listening to online radio, you may sometimes wish you could get a copy of it, and listen to it from a CD at a later date. This is something you can make happen if you get some audio capture...

It is a myth that recording audio requires special software and devices. You can record audio on your computer with just a basic speaker and microphone. Windows sound recorder is a audio recording...

Roxio was the production company for a suite of CD/DVD authoring applications. Roxio has since become Naptster INC. Software wearing the Roxio name are Easy DVD Copy 4, MyDVD, DVDitPro 6 and...

You can create your own streaming music server on an old PC by using Sockso, the free, open source music server software. Sockso runs on Windows, Mac and Linux, which means you can use whatever...

If you are looking to upgrade your iTunes with the latest version, this article is going to tell you how to do so. iTunes is compatible with the PC and Apple’s Mac so they are both easily upgraded...

When you become a customer on the iTunes music store, your credit card information is saved to make future purchases a simpler process. Your information is protected by your password and by...

Recent music albums are often recorded and mastered with the intent of generating as much volume as possible so that the tracks stand out on the radio. Unfortunately, this can result in jarring...

The iconic Motorola Razr mobile phone includes an internal memory for storing your own ringtone files. The Razr, like nearly all Motorola cell phones, is locked with proprietary software that...

Although Apple bundles its iTunes software with its iPod music manager, the iTunes software lacks some features that other free audio software includes. In order to move songs from an iPod to...

New to the computer and want to make a mix CD of your favorite music in Apple's Itunes? It's not hard. Follow these simple steps:

Whether you're an aspiring singer wanting to sound just right on a track or an aspiring sound engineer looking for a start, editing the vocals on an MP3 file can be a challenge. Fortunately, Adobe...

One good way to burn CDs without spending a dime is by downloading a type of program known as freeware. This means that you can use it for no charge. There are plenty of freeware CD burning...

Real Audio is an audio format that ends in the extension ".ra." It's used by the program Real Media Player. This format is definitely not used widely by other programs, so if you want to listen to...

Ripping your music CDs to MP3 format allows you the luxury of uploading them to portable media players, audio applications and websites, if you want. MP3 is a common audio format supported by an...

The Ubuntu Customization Kit (UCK) is a utility developed to enable you to create a Live-CD for your Linux system. Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, or Edubuntu can utilize the UCK application.

The .ALS file format is used by the popular music-creation software Ableton Live. Files with this extension are Ableton Live projects that have not yet been mixed down to an audio file. Export...

Computers have revolutionized the creation and distribution of music. The appearance of the first MIDI-compatible keyboard opened the difficult world of musical creation to novice composers. Today...

Burning CD's has become commonplace, and one of the most simple applications used to do so is iTunes. This application is found on almost everyone's computer, and it can make you a new CD in no time.

Many people have old cassette tapes from the 1980s. You can easily convert those tapes to MP3 files by using a free software package called Audacity, which is compatible with Windows, Mac and...

Napster is an online music store that allows you to listen to unlimited songs for a monthly subscription as well as the option to purchase individual tracks that remain yours regardless of whether...

Installing iTunes and QuickTime on your computer is a quick and easy process. Macs come preinstalled with this software, but you can download it and use it for playing audio and video on PCs, as...

Sometimes iTunes will not function correctly if one of the 6 components it comes downloaded with stop working or are not up to date. If you've tried updating using your system's updating software...

The Apple iPhone has become one of the most popular smart phones around. It is known for being easy to set-up and synchronize with other computers and programs. Most people enjoy consistency and...

As a member of the website Bearshare, you have found that you are not satisfied with the service. You want to cancel your membership with Bearshare. The FAQs tell you everything but how to cancel...

Windows Media Player (WMP) plays media files such as videos, music and photos on Windows-based computers. You can upload your favorite media files to the WMP library and organize them, and you...

Many cell phones only allow ringtones in MFM format. If you have such a phone, you can still use your favorite MP3s as ringtones. While no reliable way exists to go from MP3 to MFM directly,...

Windows Media Player is a popular player found on Windows operating systems. It allows you to upload and play back music, videos, photos and more. If your media player is cluttered with content...

When an audio CD is browsed on a computer, the contents of the disc are shown as CDA files. However, it is not possible to simply copy the CDA files to the computer and have a listenable result....

Real Player is a media player that plays files such as RM and RA, as well as some other audio and movie formats. In order to use Real Player to play files in RAR format, you'll need to decompress...

Windows Media Player is a digital media playback software by Microsoft that comes built-in with Windows operating systems. You can watch movies and listen to CDs, copy music to an MP3 player, burn...

The OGG music file format is beloved by audio enthusiasts, but the format has two major limitations. It is difficult to burn OGG files directly to audio CDs, and they are not supported by the...

MP3 is one of the most commonly used audio formats. Most players and portable audio devices can use MP3 format. If you have an audio file that's in a different format, you can change it to an MP3....

Mpeg, or MPG, is a video format. If you have a long audio section of a movie that you would like to listen to in iTunes as an audio book, you'll have to convert it first. As an added bonus, if...