{"id":278975,"date":"2026-06-22T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/android-17-has-a-hidden-audio-upgrade-for-pixels-heres-where-to-look\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T18:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T22:15:12","slug":"android-17-has-a-hidden-audio-upgrade-for-pixels-heres-where-to-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/android-17-has-a-hidden-audio-upgrade-for-pixels-heres-where-to-look\/","title":{"rendered":"Android 17 has a hidden audio upgrade for Pixels \u2014 here&#8217;s where to look"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/android-17-audio-quality-upgrade\/\">Android 17 has a hidden audio upgrade for Pixels \u2014 here&#8217;s where to look<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/android-17-audio-quality-upgrade\/\">https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/android-17-audio-quality-upgrade\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-22 17:45:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidpolice.com\">www.androidpolice.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;s Android 17 has been out for almost a week now, and while many of us already know about all the headlining features, there are smaller ones that have gone unnoticed.<\/p>\n<p>One of those unnoticed features just improved your Pixel&#8217;s audio quality.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tAndroid 17 is headed to Pixel phones now, and it&#8217;ll change the way you multitask<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">The biggest OS release of the year has started<\/p>\n<p>With the update, Pixel devices now natively support the LHDCv5 codec. This is essentially a higher bitrate codec, especially when compared to the standard SBC and AAC Bluetooth codecs Pixel phones default to.<\/p>\n<p>For the average music listener, this might not be a big deal. However, for audiophiles, the codec matters immensely. <\/p>\n<p>Up until now, Pixel devices have been able to push audio to earbuds and headphones with the high bitrate LDAC codec, but that created a hardware bottleneck. If your earbuds\/headphones did not support LDAC, then you&#8217;d be downgraded to standard AAC or SBC. <\/p>\n<p>With support for LHDCv5, Google is widening the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/android-17-audio-quality-upgrade\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Android 17 has a hidden audio upgrade for Pixels \u2014 here&#8217;s where to look https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/android-17-audio-quality-upgrade\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":278976,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.anpoimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2024\/10\/pixel-8a-on-white-sofa.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70,72],"class_list":["post-278975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google","tag-pixel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278977,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278975\/revisions\/278977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}