It’s very likely you’ll have seen the term ‘lossless audio’ bandied around in the music space in recent years, but is it something you need in your life?

While collecting and creating audio files for your business, you may encounter Waves. Wave files, commonly called WAVs, are digital audio files that contain more data and reproduce audio content much better than MP3s and other compressed media. Because a ...

[In our Three-Minute Tech series, we tell you everything you really need to know about a technology in three minutes or less.] The day may come when increased storage capacities and unfettered Internet bandwidth make uncompressed audio files the norm.

There things stood until the age of the personal computer and the internet. A three-minute track on a CD (which is the length of a typical pop song) occupies 31,752,000 bytes, or just over 30MB. Downloading a CD track using a 9,600 baud modem would take ...

Apple's AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format) audio files are valued for their lossless and uncompressed attributes. But because no audio quality is lost in the encoding process, AIFF's can be rather bulky in comparison to compressed audio formats.

Spotify just raised the stakes in the streaming wars. On September 10, the company announced a new Lossless Listening experience, designed to give music enthusiasts the best quality audio at 24-bit/44.