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

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

Tidal was in the high-resolution music streaming game long before such newcomers as Amazon and Apple, and its format of choice has historically been MQA, a lossy but incredibly efficient high-res ...

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

Music-streaming app Tidal has begun rolling out hi-res FLAC streams across the platform, according to CEO Jesse Dorogusker via a Reddit post. FLAC (free lossless audio codec) streams offer high ...

One of the most iconic and quality-focused music streaming platforms, Tidal, is up for a drastic change, deciding to replace its MQA with new formats and experiences. It also follows the recent price ...

Tidal‘s Hi-Fi Plus subscription tier recently became the first place in the streaming music world where you could stream hi-res audio in both FLAC and MQA formats on your smartphone. Unfortunately, ...

I had the chance to try out Tidal’s new Max audio quality setting — which integrates hi-res audio FLAC files into the streaming service’s HiFi Plus subscription tier — while it was still in beta. It ...

Listening to MQA tracks on TIDAL using BluOS just got a lot harder. Is this the end for MQA? In October 2023, BluOS 4.0 was released. It provided improved navigation, customized content, centralized ...

Hi!<BR>My system does not play FLAC files if they have a .fla extension but if I change the extension to .flac then everything is ok. MPC just says "Cant render file ...

Donald Bell has spent more than five years as a CNET senior editor, reviewing everything from MP3 players to the first three generations of the Apple iPad. He currently devotes his time to producing ...

I feel stupid asking, but I have a number of WAV files that I want to encode to WMA lossless, but I can't figure out how. Windows media player doesn't seem to offer transcoding and windows media ...