Lossless formats like ALAC and FLAC grab headlines, but AAC is the best audio format for most everyday listeners.

Earlier this year, Spotify announced a ‘HiFi’ upgrade tier for its streaming service that provides lossless audio, promising music free of compression artifacts. Although it’s still not available as ...

Digital sound is nothing more than numbers. What separates one container from another is how those numbers are packed, how much data (if any) is thrown away, and which devices understand the result.

Several Apple patents have appeared today at the US Patent & Trademark Office. Most involve audio technologies of some sort. Patent number 20110015765 involves controlling an audio and visual ...

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.