Although the term is often used interchangeably with hi-res, lossless audio is actually a different beast. A lossless file simply contains all of the original information used to make up the ...

First, it’s important to understand that there are basically three tiers of audio quality: lossy, lossless and Hi-Res. But what is lossless audio ... MP3s and Apple’s AAC files are both lossy audio ...

FLAC and ALAC are both examples of lossless audio file formats. Lossless audio can also be used to preserve 100% of the information in a hi-res audio source like SACD or DVD-Audio (or music that ...

Posting today on Reddit (by way of Digital Trends), Tidal CEO Jesse Dorogusker announced that six million tracks in the high-res FLAC format ... pack audio into small file sizes.

Here we'll break down what these file formats are, what makes them different from their alternatives and why that matters. We'll also spell out which qualify as hi-res audio. So read on, get up to ...