But even with so much technology available at our fingertips the limitations of our devices, data plans and hard drives is keeping many of us stuck with the compressed audio sites. There are some websites however, that offer streaming and/or downloadable lossless and lossy audio files for those of us with the time and money to get the high-quality music fix we crave. So I decided to create a short list of 4 Lossless Audio Music Sites for audiophiles and discerning music listeners so you can have more time to enjoy your tunes.
Bandcamp has no monthly fees for fan accounts. All available streaming music is in compressed format but when you purchase you have the many lossless and uncompressed audio format options previously listed.
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I've recently been on the deep dive of lossless music and I'm trying to find a way to play ALAC through my windows PC. I tried using iTunes and setting the playback to 24bit/96kHz (the max my Schiit Modi DAC can output), but when I view the properties of the Apple Music file being played, it always says it playing an AAC file maxed out at 256kbps. I have also tried using the Apple Music Preview app downloaded from the Microsoft Store and set the streaming audio quality to Hi-Res Lossless, yet the file properties still say it is playing back an AAC file as opposed to an ALAC file. When I insert a CD and use iTunes to play it back I get standard CD quality (16bit/44.1kHz or 1411kbps). So clearly iTunes can playback lossless audio, but not from Apple Music. When I do side-by-side comparisons between CD and Apple Music of the same song, I can clearly hear the difference, and I want to be able to use my Apple Music subscription to the fullest and stream lossless audio.
Also on windows. This is unacceptable. I only just noticed it today after prodding around. Why limit your features based on what platform your customers are on? I use a macbook pro for work, windows for personal. There's no excuse for this.
Not sure if it is true lossless. Yes, the symbol is there, but file properties still show 256 AAC, even with full lossless settings enabled. Need to connect to external DAC and check, if the app supports bit-perfect output
Using apple music preview, to me unless this is just an issue with the music player displaying incorrect info, the only way to fix this right now is to just download the songs with the Hi-Res setting on (I, like other users, had it on for streaming but apparently not working, unless again it's just a display bug).
For example here when I stream it, it is 256 AAC, but after downloading the song, you can see the file size increased tenfold, and is now HLS type file-which as others mentioned is Apple encrypted lossless file. Unless you have a lot of storage this solution still kind of sucks, and really hope the devs will change this soon. Also, strange side note but when I first played the downloaded song my windows audio settings changed and I had to go back into the sound device settings to set it back to 24/192. At the end of the day the AAC-->ALAC improvement is small compared to the improvement from, say, spotify "highest" quality to Apple AAC, but this is really inconvenient still.
I hope that a future update will fix the issue! However, I've noticed that when downloading the music and checking the properties, the file is no longer AAC but HLS (encrypted ALAC). In short, it works, but not for streaming
Nope files are way too small 7-9mb each. average lossless is at least 20-30mb at least. Bit of a downer as all my good gear is set up on my pc (headphones and amp). Be good to utilise them to their fullest on here. I have an iphone so can still run some good audio but without an amp it can be sub-optimal. Hope they fix this but probably a punishment for being PC and not Mac. Used to love mac products but they are proving time and again to be behind the curve now.
Funny you should ask. I've been testing Tidal as of late. I think it has the edge in terms of library and UX. Also, the difference between CD quality and lossless is nonexistent to my ear so I'd look at the CD tier only. It sounds great.
It's not working this way on my Windows 11 machine and Apple Music 1.4.4.33. The file size doesn't change and the downloaded file plays on a hi-res capable platform as an AAC file. My whole reason for getting Apple music was to be able to upgrade my purchases to hi-res.
I recorded a vocal track, compressed it and saved it out. Now, I would like to replace a piece of the track. Can I record a new piece for the replacement and work with the compressed file or does the file need to be uncompressed first? How do I do that?
If you are talking about dynamic range compression, you cannot easily undo that other than by Edit > Undo immediately after you compressed. Probably it is best to re-record the section you want and compress that with similar settings that you used before.
Audacity makes it relatively hard to re-record audio in the middle of the track, because the re-record is in a new track, but the advantage of that is that you can slide the newly recorded fragment exactly where you want it and crossfade the joins so that they merge seamlessly.
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Recently, the rapper Jay Z relaunched the subscription streaming music service Tidal, which includes the option to listen to high-definition audio for $19.99 per month. Tidal's HiFi, with its uncompressed audio files, promises a better listening experience than any other streaming service on the market.
Many listeners cannot hear the difference between uncompressed audio files and MP3s, but when it comes to audio quality, the size of the file isn't (ahem) everything. There are plenty of other ingredients to consider, from the quality of your headphones to the size of the room you're sitting in to, well, your own ears.
An audio file format is a file format for storing digital audio data on a computer system. The bit layout of the audio data (excluding metadata) is called the audio coding format and can be uncompressed, or compressed to reduce the file size, often using lossy compression. The data can be a raw bitstream in an audio coding format, but it is usually embedded in a container format or an audio data format with defined storage layer.
It is important to distinguish between the audio coding format, the container containing the raw audio data, and an audio codec. A codec performs the encoding and decoding of the raw audio data while this encoded data is (usually) stored in a container file. Although most audio file formats support only one type of audio coding data (created with an audio coder), a multimedia container format (as Matroska or AVI) may support multiple types of audio and video data.
One major uncompressed audio format, LPCM, is the same variety of PCM as used in Compact Disc Digital Audio and is the format most commonly accepted by low level audio APIs and D/A converter hardware. Although LPCM can be stored on a computer as a raw audio format, it is usually stored in a .wav file on Windows or in a .aiff file on macOS. The Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF) format is based on the Interchange File Format (IFF), and the WAV format is based on the similar Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF). WAV and AIFF are designed to store a wide variety of audio formats, lossless and lossy; they just add a small, metadata-containing header before the audio data to declare the format of the audio data, such as LPCM with a particular sample rate, bit depth, endianness and number of channels. Since WAV and AIFF are widely supported and can store LPCM, they are suitable file formats for storing and archiving an original recording.
BWF (Broadcast Wave Format) is a standard audio format created by the European Broadcasting Union as a successor to WAV. Among other enhancements, BWF allows more robust metadata to be stored in the file. See European Broadcasting Union: Specification of the Broadcast Wave Format (EBU Technical document 3285, July 1997). This is the primary recording format used in many professional audio workstations in the television and film industry. BWF files include a standardized timestamp reference which allows for easy synchronization with a separate picture element. Stand-alone, file based, multi-track recorders from AETA,[1] Sound Devices,[2] Zaxcom,[3] HHB Communications Ltd,[4] Fostex, Nagra, Aaton,[5] and TASCAM all use BWF as their preferred format.
Uncompressed audio formats encode both sound and silence with the same number of bits per unit of time. Encoding an uncompressed minute of absolute silence produces a file of the same size as encoding an uncompressed minute of music. In a lossless compressed format, however, the music would occupy a smaller file than an uncompressed format and the silence would take up almost no space at all.
Lossless compression formats include FLAC, WavPack, Monkey's Audio, ALAC (Apple Lossless). They provide a compression ratio of about 2:1 (i.e. their files take up half the space of PCM). Development in lossless compression formats aims to reduce processing time while maintaining a good compression ratio.
Lossy audio format enables even greater reductions in file size by removing some of the audio information and simplifying the data. This, of course, results in a reduction in audio quality, but a variety of techniques are used, mainly by exploiting psychoacoustics, to remove the parts of the sound that have the least effect on perceived quality, and to minimize the amount of audible noise added during the process. The popular MP3 format is probably the best-known example, but the AAC format found on the iTunes Music Store is also common. Most formats offer a range of degrees of compression, generally measured in bit rate. The lower the rate, the smaller the file and the more significant the quality loss. 152ee80cbc
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