We’ve been hearing a lot about lossless audio lately. Apple Music says it has it. So does Amazon Music. Tidal and Qobuz have it too, but Spotify doesn’t. (Yet. Or still.) Is lossless audio a big deal?

RECORDING WEEK 2025: Most people with an interest in music production or recording probably have at least a loose idea of what compression does. Put simply, it ‘squeezes’ incoming audio by reducing ...

There's good news on that front, if not for the hardware and bandwidth you need.

Last week, Meta announced an AI-powered audio compression method called "EnCodec" that can reportedly compress audio 10 times smaller than the MP3 format at 64kbps with no loss in quality. Meta says ...

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With the introduction of Qualcomm’s aptX Lossless technology, Bluetooth headphone customers will finally join their wired audiophile brethren with the option to listen to lossless quality audio. The ...

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A process is used when music is compressed into MP3 to discard all the sounds a machine thinks the human ear can't audibly perceive, thus vastly reducing the amount of storage needed to hold entire ...

Apple Music subscribers will soon get to listen to their music with lossless audio, as Apple will introduce "industry-leading" sound quality to the streaming platform from June. The new audio features ...

Apple Music Lossless Compression and Spatial Audio are coming to users anytime in June. However, as the month started and before the official release, some users are already getting a glimpse of the ...