Yes, the lossless audio file you're using is probably compressed — that's completely fine for this reason.

After four years, Spotify finally made good on its promise to add a high-fidelity, “lossless” audio setting to its platform last week. The new setting, which sits above the service’s “very high” audio ...

Understanding the world of digital audio formats can be a bit confusing, with an array of different file types and codecs in use. Among these, lossless audio holds a special place, promising ...

A new version of Apple Computer's iTunes Producer software suggest that the company may begin to offer tracks through its iTunes Music Store that are encoded in its higher-quality lossless compression ...

A detailed industry explainer is challenging common misconceptions about 'lossless' audio, clarifying that many lossless formats are compressed yet retain full fidelity. The report distinguishes ...

Spotify announced Wednesday that Lossless Listening, its newest audio format, is available for premium users in select countries, including the U.S. Lossless audio files allow for listeners to stream ...

Apple Music's new lossless playback is big news, and not just for audiophiles, but you'd be forgiven for getting confused when it comes to how the higher-quality streaming plays with your AirPods or ...

A process is used when music is compressed into MP3 to discard all the sounds a machine thinks the human ear can't audibly perceive, thus vastly reducing the amount of storage needed to hold entire ...

Google has confirmed that it will soon be adding lossless audio over USB-C to the Pixel 8 phones. The news came from a Reddit AMA for Android 14, where Dave Burke (VP of Engineering for Android at ...

According to a post at Apple rumor and news site AppleInsider, version 1.4 of Apple's iTunes Producer software now offers the ability to encode music using Apple's Lossless Encoder. iTunes Producer ...

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.

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 ...