Audiophiles seek out lossless audio formats for their superior quality, but the reality is that most listeners stream in lossless simply because it's included with their subscription. Apple Music uses ...

Choosing the right audio format matters to every producer and mastering engineer. When you know precisely when to use WAV, MP3, or FLAC, your workflow becomes more efficient and your masters retain ...

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Dolby Atmos Music is just starting to take off, but already there is a challenger in the small but growing market for streamable surround-encoded music. First previewed at CES 2019, Sony’s 360 Reality ...

A new, high-resolution audio format has just launched on Spotify. Spotify announced Lossless Listening on Wednesday, Sept. 10. The new feature allows users to stream music in 24-bit/44.1 kHz FLAC, the ...

MQA is an audio format that claims to use a unique “origami” algorithm, promising better quality and more musicality than other formats. At times, it’s been claimed to be a lossless format in so many ...

When it comes to discussions of digital audio, you’ll quickly run into an alphabet soup of acronyms: MP3, AAC, ALAC, FLAC, WAV, DSD, and so on. It’s practically endless. You’d think that with this ...

In the patent data, Apple says that producing three-dimensional (3D) sound effects in augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality (MR) applications is challenging because existing ...