Apple is internally testing improved versions of its built-in Music and QuickTime apps, which in iOS 18 and macOS 15 will gain support for smooth audio transitions and a new "Passthrough" feature.

In the era of advanced technology and seamless user experiences, identifying unknown songs has become easier than ever, thanks to features like Bing Audio Search. Here’s a detailed guide on how to use ...

Apple is reportedly ready to start paying artists and record labels more money for the songs that are streamed if those songs also have a version with spatial audio support - notably, the song ...

If you’ve been in a movie theater recently, you may have noticed that the sound is a whole lot more immersive. That’s thanks to spatial audio, a type of surround sound. The most well-known version is ...

Just fire up the Amazon Music app for iOS or Android, plug in your headphones, and tee up a spatial audio song that’s been mastered in either Dolby Atmos or Sony’s 360 Reality Audio format. Just keep ...

Taking advantage of premium audio formats has never been an easy feat, leaving starved connoisseurs in the dust. While pristine high-res music has been available for some time now (with gradual ...

If you consider yourself an audiophile, you're probably not content with traditional audio streaming services, which lock you into compressed, lossy audio formats playing at 16-bit/44.1kHz. This is CD ...

For quality purposes, some people prefer to use home audio CD players over streaming to listen to their favorite tunes.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. With significantly higher sound quality than 'standard' digital music, hi-res audio is certainly ...