There's good news on that front, if not for the hardware and bandwidth you need.

CNET explains what FLAC is, where to buy music in the format, and how to play it on your phone, computer or hi-fi. TV and home video editor Ty Pendlebury joined CNET Australia in 2006, and moved to ...

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 ...

You don’t need to look anywhere when the inbuilt Media Player app supports FLAC files. It comes pre-installed with Windows 11/10 and can play FLAC files. The ...

Files in the FLAC format are around 6 times larger than what they would be in the MP3 format. Thus, users prefer to convert FLAC audio files to MP3 format. Here are 5 of the most popular audio file ...

When Tidal CEO Jesse Dorogusker announced in April 2023 that the music service would soon be adding lossless hi-res audio in the open-source FLAC format, a lot of folks cheered the move. And by a lot ...

We test the streaming files to establish whether Spotify’s long-awaited lossless delivery actually serves the bit-perfect ...

Oliver has written about technology for more than a decade, spanning some of the biggest properties in the space including Macworld, iMore, Lifewire, and Input. With a focus on mobile, gaming, and ...

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 ...

Apple has allegedly added support for lossless FLAC audio files in iOS 11, according to reports from Reddit users who have installed copies of the developer beta, spotted by The Next Web. Per the ...

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