Android USB Audio only supports a subset of the USB audio class 1 specification, meaning that data must be sent in adaptive or asynchronous PCM packet formats. So MP3 or FLAC decoding still has to ...

For playing back hi-res audio on Android devices, USB Audio Player PRO ("UAPP" for short), which sells for $7.99, is probably the most flexible app.

Using a Samsung Galaxy Note 10+, the USB Audio Recorder PRO app and a Samson Go microphone, the process of making a recording was dead easy. The only tricky part was making sure we connected the ...

In last week’s Reddit AMA for Android 14, Google’s Dave Burke directly confirmed that the Pixel 8 series does indeed support lossless audio output over USB-C. Or, it will at least.

If you use an Android phone, make you buy an adapater with a high-res DAC; these tend to support 24-bit/96kHz audio. iPhones ship with a 24-bit / 96kHz adapter in the box.

With modern phones without removable batteries simultaneous USB/audio dongle and charging usage via the USB-C connector is claimed to be possible, but this is something to check beforehand.

There's no doubt that USB-C is a big step up from previous iterations of the standard, you can even use it to output a ...

As a matter of fact, all head units installed in a car must support audio over USB because Android Auto sends the music audio over USB. At the same time, phone call audio is sent over Bluetooth.