If you begin to dip your toes into the busy, crowded and confusing world of audio file formats, you'll quickly find yourself swamped with various different types of format, codec, compression system ...

Digital sound is nothing more than numbers. What separates one container from another is how those numbers are packed, how much data (if any) is thrown away, and which devices understand the result.

Sony took the wraps off its new high-resolution portable music player at CES 2015, bringing expandable memory, plus support for DSD playback and a new "superior" LDAC Bluetooth codec. When you ...