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.

The Apple iPhone is compatible with several types of audio files, including voice memos. And just like the music files you've stored on your iPhone, you can move these sound files to the computer ...

If you stream music (and who doesn't these days) you've obviously come across abbreviations at the end of the audio files. The acronyms reading WAV, FLAC, MP3 and so on, are called audio codecs. You ...

Audio recording is simple in Windows 10. All you need is a microphone and software to capture the input. You don’t have to spend money on a sound recording program, however. Good paid programs exist, ...

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PowerPoint supports a number of common audio and video formats. We’ll go through the details and show you how to incorporate audio and video files into your presentation slides. The current versions ...

In this post, we will show you how to change the file type extension on Windows 11/10. Every file on our PC has a file type. For audio files, it might be MP3; for documents, it might be Docx or pdf; ...