Streaming services and hi-fi brands now promote “lossless” music as the new gold standard, promising studio-grade sound in ...

Most people with an interest in music production or recording probably have at least a loose idea of what compression does. Put simply, it ‘squeezes’ incoming audio by reducing the dynamic peaks in an ...

RECORDING WEEK 2025: Most people with an interest in music production or recording probably have at least a loose idea of what compression does. Put simply, it ‘squeezes’ incoming audio by reducing ...

Lossless audio is the first step toward audio nirvana. But what is it, does it really make a difference, and how can you get ...

Last week, Meta announced an AI-powered audio compression method called "EnCodec" that can reportedly compress audio 10 times smaller than the MP3 format at 64kbps with no loss in quality. Meta says ...

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Lossless data compression of digital audio signals is useful when it is necessary to minimize the storage space or transmission bandwidth of audio data while still maintaining archival quality.

Apple Music Lossless Compression and Spatial Audio are coming to users anytime in June. However, as the month started and before the official release, some users are already getting a glimpse of 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 ...

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