According to a post at Apple rumor and news site AppleInsider, version 1.4 of Apple's iTunes Producer software now offers the ability to encode music using Apple's Lossless Encoder. iTunes Producer ...

ALE and AAC files both get the .m4a extension.<BR><BR>You can't use the Import command from the File menu to select ALE .m4a files, not even one at a time.<BR><BR>But if you have ALE tracks in your ...

The term lossless is a big one in music streaming right now. Ever since Apple Music rolled out lossless-quality tracks to its subscribers at no extra cost, it forced the hand of all the legacy ...

Spotify adds FLAC lossless to Premium, rolling out to 50+ countries. Apple offers higher‑res ALAC (up to 24‑bit/192kHz) and generally cheaper plans. Lossless uses far more cellular data; download ...