Apple CarPlay enhances the driving experience by allowing safer music control through your car's infotainment screen. To maximize audio quality, use a wired connection instead of wireless, enable lossless audio settings in services like Apple Music or Tidal, and adjust your car's EQ settings to match your listening preferences.
Lacquer is an iOS app that detects fake lossless audio files by analyzing the actual audio content rather than file metadata, using FFT analysis to identify upscaled or re-encoded files. It offers on-device processing with no uploads or accounts required, displaying spectral evidence for its verdicts, and functions as a full lossless audio player supporting FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF, MP3, AAC, and m4a formats.
JPEG XL, despite being a technically impressive and royalty-free image codec, struggles to justify its adoption on the Web. The author argues that lossy compression dominates Web use cases where JPEG XL offers minimal advantage, and modern encoders like AV1 now surpass JPEG XL in both speed and compression efficiency according to perceptual metrics.