Audacity provides an effective, minimally destructive way to lower the bit rate of an audio file. Lowering the bit rate lessens the quality of the audio file, but also decreases the file size. This ...

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 ...

Now that the patents for the popular MP3 audio codec have expired, it’s unlikely that the format is going anywhere, despite many reports that misinterpreted what the end of the format’s licensing ...

Smartphones have long since surpassed the old MP3 player when it comes to portable music, and continue to include more and more impressive audio hardware to win over the audiophile crowd – from front ...

A new, high-resolution audio format has just launched on Spotify. Spotify announced Lossless Listening on Wednesday, Sept. 10. The new feature allows users to stream music in 24-bit/44.1 kHz FLAC, the ...

Since you already have everything lossless, it doesn't really make much difference. I would do them at 128 or 160, and then re-do any at a higher bitrate if you can hear artifacts on those tracks ...

Everybody is familiar with high-definition video these days, which packs more visual information (more pixels) into the shows you see on TV and on Blu-ray discs. But you may not know much about ...

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 ...