Lossless compression keeps the original detail of the audio recording that you would otherwise lose with lossy compression. CD-quality audio is a really common bitrate for lossless audio, which is ...

Newly added references in the music app's code suggest the lossless service is at least still under development and could even be getting closer to launch.

Spotify appears to be gearing up to launch its long-awaited lossless music tier. Chris Messina (via TechCrunch) and Spicetify (via The ...

Lossless audio is higher quality, but most listeners won't be able to notice a difference compared to high-quality lossy formats. Compression makes audio files easier to store and transfer, and ...

Lossless audio is where music tracks are encoded in a way that doesn’t lose any data. The files are still compressed, but fancy algorithms ensure that nothing important is lost from the recording, so ...

Lossless and hi-res audio boil down to better sound. It comes at the expense of bandwidth usage (or file size, if you download music), but you can always fall back to standard audio quality if ...

Apple Music uses similar terminology, dubbing “lossless” as 16-bit/44.1 kHz up to 24-bit/192 kHz and “Hi-Res Lossless” as audio quality that maxes out at 24-bit/192kHz.

With lossless CD quality, radio-aware scaling, low latency gaming and voice, and Hi-Res support, aptX Lossless is the industry’s most robust Bluetooth audio option.

Spotify first promised a lossless audio tier back in February 2021, in what was then referred to as Spotify HiFi. At the time, the company said this would launch later the same year.

But not all lossless audio is equal. Qualcomm aptX can only transmit lossless audio in 16-bit form at 44.1kHz – that is to say, CD quality.

‌Apple Music‌ gained Spatial Audio and Lossless support in June 2021, and since, Apple has continued to add new songs to its catalog that support both new features.