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Tristan is a user experience designer and freelance software developer based in Berkeley, California. He graduated from UC Berkeley in 2006 with a BA in Computer Science and enjoys photography, creating software the right way, making and listening to music, nature and the outdoors, writing about science and technology and life, and helping other people.
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I'm also the lead developer of Zenphoto, an elegant web photo gallery program. Check it out!

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Digital Audio Formats


Note: I’m still compiling this page; eventually it will have a very comprehensive comparison of the different formats, including my own subjective analyses.

mp3

Official mp3 page from the Fraunhofer IIS
A Comprehensive guide to audio formats from Illustrate, who make the excellent utility dBpowerAMP.

Ogg Vorbis

Official Ogg Vorbis site

AAC (mpeg-4 audio) (AKA iTunes audio)

Apple’s Page on AAC

Lossless: FLAC/Monkey’s Audio/etc.