I recently transfered several music files to an Android phone (kitkat) and noticed something weird: all my flac files have horrible sound quality, with lots of chirps and skips, but my mp3 files sound ...

In an exciting development for music enthusiasts, Tidal, the popular music-streaming app, has commenced the rollout of hi-res FLAC streams across its platform. Jesse Dorogusker, the CEO of Tidal, made ...

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The term lossless is a big one in music streaming right now. Ever since Apple Music rolled out lossless-quality tracks to its subscribers at no extra cost, it forced the hand of all the legacy ...

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?

If you stream music (and who doesn't these days) you've obviously come across abbreviations at the end of the audio files. The acronyms reading WAV, FLAC, MP3 and so on, are called audio codecs. You ...

There are more lossless music streaming services than ever: Apple, Tidal, Amazon, Tidal and Deezer (but still not Spotify). Here’s how they all compare. The other great thing that this competition has ...

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After four years of waiting, Spotify has finally introduced lossless audio streaming, which was first teased in February 2021. The company released a press release stating that this new option is ...

Free is nice, but these music services are absolutely worth paying for. Each one offers ad-free streaming for paid subscribers, plus the ability to save content for offline listening and stream any ...