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Here is a complete guide for you to learn what is a PLS file and how to create one in Windows 11/10. PLS is basically a file format used to store and organize multimedia playlists. It typically ...

WAV is a digital audio format that stores waveform data. You can easily reformat a WAV file into an M4A file, which is an audio file created as part of the multimedia MPEG-4 format. Some examples of ...

Since I put together this new rig and installed Win7 on it, I've been using Windows Media Player to play backups of old mp3's and to rip CD's. In the past I've always used 3rd party software for ...

I feel stupid asking, but I have a number of WAV files that I want to encode to WMA lossless, but I can't figure out how. Windows media player doesn't seem to offer transcoding and windows media ...

In a grab-bag column this week, I answer some questions about tagging a bunch of singles as an album, and I discuss tagging WAV files in iTunes. I also take on the HD-versus-SD debate—as in, is it ...

I regularly get questions about lossless audio files, or files compressed in a lossless format, for my Ask the iTunes Guy column. These questions come from people who seek to listen to the best ...