Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio

Re:Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio by locusm on Monday May 17, 2021 @08:02PM (#27189856)

Apple tosses togethor lossless and high res in this article, it states that its whole catalog will be available in lossless format and also this "For the true audiophile, Apple Music also offers Hi-Resolution Lossless all the way up to 24 bit at 192 kHz".

It doesnt say if the high res tracks are included in a subscription which is interesting as competing services usually have a higher price tier for this. Services like Tidal & Qobuz differentiate themselves on high res but it is such a tiny percentage of their catalog thats its often a waste of effort.

And then there is the whole hardware support question, Android down samples everything and Apples codec over bluetooth isnt going to support anything high res anyway.

This all sounds like features for the average user (bigger numbers are better) where in reality it probably holds value for less than 1% of users.

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Re:Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio by joshspankit on Monday May 17, 2021 @08:11PM (#27189884)

Apple’s own high-end headphones can’t even handle the lossless files.

I suspect like many things, that this is Apple’s attempt at providing a service that’s just valid enough that they can dry up the competitors then relax their quality and get back to selling the products they want to sell people.

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