How to Use lossless in a Sentence
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The leap to data throughput speeds of 1Mbit/s to achieve lossless transmission is a big one.
— Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021 -
If the feature is ready, Apple might add lossless audio support to the AirPods for the first time.
— Chris Smith, BGR, 1 July 2022 -
The main story of the earbuds is that these are the first wireless headphones of any kind to offer true lossless audio.
— Benny Har-Even, Forbes, 1 July 2022 -
The crux of lossless versus lossy music is human hearing.
— Tyler Hayes, Wired, 17 Apr. 2021 -
The iPod shuffle only supports .wav files as a lossless format.
— Wired News Report, WIRED, 9 Dec. 2005 -
The quality chip set ensures clear sound and lossless music.
— Chris Hachey, BGR, 27 Apr. 2021 -
The goal of the player and the Pono Music store was to make lossless high-quality music available digitally to the masses.
— PCMAG, 20 Sep. 2022 -
Content uploaded in a high bitrate or lossless format can now be streamed back at AAC 256 kbps via an opt-in setting.
— Dani Deahl, The Verge, 18 Oct. 2018 -
But support for lossless audio is a new and exciting AirPods Pro 2 claim.
— Chris Smith, BGR, 3 Jan. 2022 -
Vinyl is a lossless audio format as well, and as such records produce a warm sound that differs from the crispness of digital audio.
— Brittany Vincent, CNN Underscored, 3 Aug. 2020 -
The unit offers high-resolution, lossless sound sources via a Wi-Fi connection.
— Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023 -
Founded in 2007, the French platform offers one of the world’s largest catalogs of high-resolution, lossless music.
— Lina Abascal, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2022 -
The menu brings a mute function to the new Mojo, four crossfeed settings, a button-lock feature for traveling, plus those fully lossless tone controls.
— Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022 -
By making that announcement, Qualcomm threw down the gauntlet to Apple which still doesn’t have a lossless codec for connecting its range of wireless earphones to iPhones.
— Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021 -
Sprint will also throw in a subscription to Hulu and Tidal (the entry-level version, without lossless audio).
— Jacob Kastrenakes, The Verge, 12 July 2018 -
Perfect, lossless electricity would have a PQR of 100 percent.
— David Roberts, Vox, 5 June 2018 -
Schusser points out that Apple has even more classical music than Primephonic, will much of it in lossless quality.
— David Phelan, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021 -
Our second favorite is Apple Music, which includes lossless audio, curated playlists, and a strong library for $10 per month.
— Louryn Strampe, Wired, 13 Feb. 2022 -
Music will be in a lossless audio format – as opposed to digital audio formats such as MP3 that compress and discard some sound data.
— Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2021 -
The revised audio enables 48KHz lossless audio for music streaming, helping bridge the last mile between mobile phones and wireless headphones.
— Eric Zeman, PCMAG, 15 Nov. 2022 -
The company began collecting high-resolution masters way back in 2012 and most insiders felt that meant a move to a lossless tier was imminent way back then.
— Bobby Owsinski, Forbes, 9 May 2021 -
Even so, big updates are still expected in the 2022 model, including better voice calls and even, just possibly, lossless audio playback.
— David Phelan, Forbes, 7 July 2022 -
It's recommended for marine biology students, night owls, and the kid with several hard drives filled with lossless audio files of Phish concerts.
— Gear Team, Wired, 10 Aug. 2021 -
Since then, Apple Music and Amazon have offered lossless music at no extra charge, and high-fidelity music has also spread to other services.
— Jay Peters, The Verge, 14 Mar. 2023 -
Compared to the lossless clarity and endless replay-ability of a recording — which can here be retrieved even from a phone thrown into the sea — memory is fickle, and thoughts and motivations cannot be known outside the locked box of your own heart.
— Jessica Kiang, Variety, 23 May 2022 -
The technical work to bring the feature to market is largely complete, and the company has re-ingested its entire music catalog in lossless quality.
— Jay Peters, The Verge, 14 Mar. 2023 -
Another significant new feature for the home is lossless audio support for Apple Music on the HomePod mini, which is coming later this year.
— Chris Smith, BGR, 7 June 2021 -
Pioneering Australian headphone brand Nura has announced its first pair of earphones to offer lossless audio streaming over Bluetooth.
— Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 28 June 2022 -
However, while data on Earth is sent through nearly lossless fiber optic cables, data in space often has to travel across millions of miles and through multiple relay satellites, and this can introduce problems.
— Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 27 June 2016 -
This immediately made waves across the industry, and within hours, Amazon revealed that its own lossless music tier would be free to all Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers.
— Jacob Siegal, BGR, 21 May 2021
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