Creating and sharing good audio takes a lot more than a microphone, an app, and a save button. A key editing tool is compression, but only if used correctly.

The word ‘lossless’ sounds like it describes audio with no compression used. But lossless audio compression is a thing. Here’s a quick primer. Lossless audio formats use compression algorithms to ...

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?

But what is lossless music, anyway? Is it better than what you’re currently listening to? And can you even tell the difference with your current ears and equipment? Digitally downloaded or streaming ...

A good quality DAC (Digital to Analog Converter) is one of the crucial elements when it comes to deciding the kind of audio experience you can expect from a device. And at large, the same holds true ...

Over the years, we’ve seen tremendous improvements to the process of capturing sound in digital form and then playing it back for human ears. However, lossy compression, which cuts file sizes and ...

Apple did its part in moving the world to wireless headphones. With the removal of the headphone jack with iPhone 7, the company made it clear that the future of audio is wireless. However, the ...

The goal of digital compression algorithms is to produce a digital representation of an audio signal which, when decoded and reproduced, sounds the same as the original signal, while using a minimum ...

“Ready to Start” from Arcade Fire’s 2010 album “The Suburbs”; as seen using the Audacity audio editor. The amount of audio (blue) touching the top and bottom of the window is a sign of excessive ...

Some projects seem too good to be true until you dig into it and find the secret magic that makes it all work. Take Paper Tunes by [Makestreame], a project which purports to store a song on a single ...

File archiving software is another handy tool for compressing multiple files into a single archive with minimal loss in quality. These programs allow you to group related files together and apply ...

If you use iTunes or if you buy and download digital music, you’ll have come across a number of terms and abbreviations that describe digital audio files. This alphabet soup can be quite confusing.