Scenario: You’ve obtained an audio or video file that’s either in a format unsupported by the device you intend to play it on—an iOS device, traditional iPod, or your Mac, for example—or in a form ...

QuickTime X in OS X includes quite a few hidden gems to make previously tedious tasks simple. One great example is it’s built in ability to rip audio from nearly any video file. In this video, that’s ...

Is it possible to extract audio tracks from video and audio files with relative ease? This is probably the question you were asking a few minutes ago. Well, the answer is yes, it is possible with the ...

[Editor’s note: The MPAA and most media companies argue that you can’t legally copy or convert commercial DVDs for any reason. We (and others) think that, if you own a DVD, you should be able to ...

Streaming video is great, but sometimes it’s more than you need—or more than you can run, if you’re away from an Internet connection. If you like to listen to podcasts, lectures, or other audio while ...

I have a video and wanted to extract the audio only. Video is 4 mins long give or take and is 17.3 meg I fired up VLC player, opted to convert to a mp3 with 384 kb/s and 44.1k and got a file that was ...