It’s very likely you’ll have seen the term ‘lossless audio’ bandied around in the music space in recent years, but is it something you need in your life?

A process is used when music is compressed into MP3 to discard all the sounds a machine thinks the human ear can't audibly perceive, thus vastly reducing the amount of storage needed to hold entire albums. The problem with this form of 'lossy' compression ...

Most people have downloaded large files, such as music or video, from the Internet. Because of the large size of these files, downloading them can take hours. To solve this problem, and make better use of disk space, large files are compressed, using ...

One student’s desire to get out of a final exam led to the ubiquitous algorithm that shrinks data without sacrificing information. With more than 9 billion gigabytes of information traveling the internet every day, researchers are constantly looking for ...

A compression technique that does not decompress digital data back to 100% of the original. Lossy methods can provide high degrees of compression and result in smaller compressed files, but some number of the original pixels, sound waves or video frames ...

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 quality audio files with iTunes. But many iTunes users don’t ...

Using compression software such as WinZip or WinRAR shrinks files so they take up less space. This makes zip and rar files ideal for sharing over email or by USB drive. However, some types of files, including many photo formats, will never compress by a ...