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 ...

Thanks to the ability of digital audio to be perfectly copied, transmitted, and carried in small packages, we may be surrounded by more music and human-made audio programming than at any other time in ...

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 ...