Though there a ton of different audio codecs out there, many media devices equivalent to iPods, smartphones and tablets, and desktop music players like Windows Media Player and iTunes are often suitable with only a few specific ones. First…

As Wes Phillips not too long ago reported on this website , CD sales are down and legal downloads of audio information are up. Stereophile has been criticized more than once for not paying enough consideration to the subjects of MP3 and ot…