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...Tech tools — Apple and Amazon’s free HD music In a blow to smaller streaming services like Tidal, both Apple and Amazon announced today that they will now offer high-quality “lossless” audio without any...
...Apple back on top with phone salesThe launch of a 5G iPhone has propelled Apple to the top of the global smartphone makers’ rankings for the first time in five years....
...Spotify and Apple Music have yet to offer such a service....
...They benefit from a proprietary wireless link to beam lossless sound, with the combination pictured costing $1,400 for the first 100 sets sold....
...But it has struggled to match the growth of Spotify, which has more than 10m subscribers, and also faces competition from Google and Apple’s Beats Music....
...Listening through a high-end system, the improvement between an iTunes download and a lossless CD conversion was dramatic....
...A few devoted audiophiles, comfortable discussing bit rates and data compression, have kept alive the pursuit of “lossless” digital music....
...December 3 – Internet TVs, with Roku opens TV app store for OTT channels, Apple TV rivals offer far more features and ZillionTV joins a gazillion services....
...For audiophiles, the player supports WMA lossless files as well as all the more usual audio formats....
...Audiophiles will point out that most digital music files – unless recorded in so-called “lossless” formats such as Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) or Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) – are compressed to...
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