We’ve all listened to digital music, right? And that means you’ve probably heard of “bitrate” or come across files that have “kbps” at the end. Thing is… what does that mean? What the hell is bitrate?

The term lossless is a big one in music streaming right now. Ever since Apple Music rolled out lossless-quality tracks to its subscribers at no extra cost, it forced the hand of all the legacy ...

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Most people don't think twice about the type of audio file they use, but audio formats quietly shape how we experience sound. They play a bigger role in our daily lives than we realize, whether ...

Windows only: MP3 Quality Modifier makes it easy to lower the bit rate of your audio files, allowing non-audiophiles to fit more of them onto an MP3 player. Lossless formats and high bit rate MP3 ...

If you stream music (and who doesn't these days) you've obviously come across abbreviations at the end of the audio files. The acronyms reading WAV, FLAC, MP3 and so on, are called audio codecs. You ...

WAV audio files can be as large as 4GB, and even smaller files need a lot of space. While WAV format files are of excellent quality, not all users can afford to store them in their devices.

I regularly get questions about lossless audio files, or files compressed in a lossless format, for my Ask the iTunes Guy column. These questions come from people who seek to listen to the best ...