ITunes sucks. There, we said it. Apple’s once very handy jukebox and music library manager has morphed into an unusable piece of crap that’s not even an app anymore, it’s just a kiosk for the iTunes Store.

FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, an audio format similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality. This is similar to how Zip works, except with FLAC you will get much better compression because it is designed specifically for audio, and you can play back compressed FLAC files in your favorite player (or your car or home stereo, see supported devices) just like you would an MP3 file. FLAC stands out as the fastest and most widely supported lossless audio codec, and the only one that at once is non-proprietary, is unencumbered by patents, has an open-source reference implementation, has a well documented format and API, and has several other independent implementations.

Recorded in Los Angeles, New York City, and Macau, vosotros teams up with long-time collaborator Sam Barsh to create a musical journey through time.

This article documents how to run the Windows version of Spotify in Linux, using Wine. The installation instructions are specific for Debian, but might work without problem in Ubuntu and the general instructions might apply for all system capables of running Wine. It runs fine on FreeBSD 7 too.

A friend commented recently that she doesn't understand why people put up with such poor sound quality for phone calls on cell phones, and particularly iPhones. "I can hardly hear the person talking to me," she said. "I don't think smart phones are making any improvement to the quality of the phone call," she added. "Is it not important anymore?" She wondered why people accepted such poor quality, and so did Jonathan Berger, but a lot of people just don't hear it the same way.

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Audio Hijack Pro. It’s a piece of software designed to capture audio input and output from your computer, and route it into a file. This is one of those tasks that it does not necessarily occur to you to do—until you play back a video and realize you want to capture a piece of dialogue for a ringtone, for instance, or wish that you could listen to your favorite radio show on your iPod. Or, you want to record a podcast. It doesn’t really matter how it works, but essentially, it wiretaps the system audio stream, which can be split up by application or taken as a whole. Then, it can apply filters to it, and then convert the file (natively, an AIFF) to the format of your choice. Ta-da!

Audio Hijack Pro gives you the freedom to listen to audio when you want and how you want. Record any audio with Audio Hijack Pro - it's the cornerstone of your digital audio experience. Exclusively for Mac OS X.

This week, we're really happy to be sharing some work we've commissioned to deliver BBC content (mainly radio shows from the BBC Audio & Music team) on demand for users of GNU/Linux.

Decibel Audio Player is a GTK+ open-source (GPL license) audio player designed for GNU/Linux, which aims at being very straightforward to use by mean of a very clean and user friendly interface.

Opentape is a free, open-source package that lets you make and host your own mixtapes on the web. Upload songs (via web or FTP), reorder, rename, customize the style, and share what you like on other sites with an embeddable player.

Rubyripper is a front-end application written in Ruby (well, duh) that, like most other linux CD rippers, uses cdparanoia. It differs from most of them because it “tries to deliver a secure rip by ripping the same track multiple times, and correcting any differences”.

Over the past decade and a half, a revolution in recording technology has changed the way albums are produced, mixed and mastered — almost always for the worse. "They make it loud to get [listeners'] attention," Bendeth says. Engineers do that by applyi

CDs are fine things for listening to and archiving, but they're bulky. Think of all the shelf space you could free up if that digital music resided on one little hard drive rather than hundreds of boxed-up plastic discs. It's a commitment, but putting all

If you have any mp3 playing device that does not register itself as a music player, but as a usb-disc, you can use this trick under Linux to get your mp3 player working with rhythmbox

Play is an application for playing and managing audio files.

Tag is a metadata editor for FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, Monkey's Audio and WavPack files.

Max is an application for creating high-quality audio files in various formats, from compact discs or files.

Great to see a large public broadcaster provide Ogg streams!

Mirage is a ready-to-try implementation of the latest research in automatic playlist generation and music similarity. Mirage analyzes your music collection and computes similarity models for each song. After your music has been analyzed, Mirage is able to

The Hype Machine follows music blog discussion. Every day, hundreds of people around the world write about music they love. Then it all ends up here.

Record, play, stream, share your digital content between PC/web, home entertainment and portable players.

At Neuros, our unique commitment to open-source product development allows our users to be active participants in making our digital media devices the best in the world.

Canola provides the best solution for local stored media consumption. It will scan and index all your memory cards' media in its database and then provide you an easy way to browse it.

Entagged is an Open-source audiofile tagger.

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