Have you ever wondered why commercials sound louder than your favorite TV shows? Or why you have to adjust the playback volume on your television when switching between channels? Because of this, ...

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Lossless audio is becoming more common, but many people are still unsure what the term means. In simple words, lossless audio keeps all the details from the original recording. Nothing is removed to ...

Streaming services crossed the hurdle of delivering CD-quality tracks to subscribers, but lossless audio is one of many optional settings that can drastically affect how your music actually sounds. By ...

Enhance your Spotify experience by tweaking these six settings: switch to Very High streaming/download quality for crisp audio, disable volume normalization for authentic sound, enable crossfade for ...

ARRIS has added an audio normalization feature, along with several other new features, to its VIPr transcoder/re-encoder. With the new software release, VIPr continuously measures and calculates a ...

With over 574 million users and 226 million premium subscribers, it's safe to say Spotify is the world's favorite music app, and with good reason. There's so much to like about Spotify, including the ...

Some users have noticed that the audio in iTunes can sound distorted or "muddy" at times, where a fair amount of garbled static or other distortion makes songs sound rather unpleasant. User The3rdMan ...

Discover how to use the Windows 11 sound mixer per app to customize audio levels for each application. Step-by-step guide to ...

If you're new to Spotify, you might notice something weird: Music might just sound a bit more quiet than it should. Maybe it's a problem every now and then, or maybe it's an issue for most songs.