FAQs Why didn’t you guys test FLAC or something? Face it, the average person opens iTunes to import their CDs in MP3 format. They aren’t downloading special third party software.

Think you can tell the difference between CD quality music and compressed MP3s? This simple test can prove once and for all whether storing your music in lossless is worth your time (and hard ...

In this how-to, I show you how to use abcde A Better CD Encoder, a terminal application, to rip an audio CD and then convert the audio to an MP3 and FLAC along with full album and track details.

MP3s are convenient, but no matter how high the bit rate, they're still lossy music files. We'll show you how to rip your music CDs to FLAC files, which are superior in sound quality.

Tidal's hi-res FLAC tracks are now accessible to all HiFi Plus subscribers, but it's still a hot mess.

So Bluesound welcomes high-test FLAC, WAV and AIFF music files but it lags far behind Sonos in available streaming-music services. Sonos offers more than 20.

Music-streaming app Tidal has begun rolling out hi-res FLAC streams across the platform, according to CEO Jesse Dorogusker via a Reddit post. FLAC (free lossless audio codec) streams offer high ...

Others think there’s no practical difference between lossless FLAC and, say, a 320 kbps MP3 – perhaps even lower bitrates with the right compression algorithms.

Converting your FLAC audio files to MP3 is quicker and easier than reripping all of your CDs.

Tidal is now streaming 6 million lossless hi-res tracks in FLAC to Early Access Program users on iOS.