Recently, our associates at they announced that Apple Music would acquire “HiFi” streaming options, conceivably with iOS 14.6. Today, they find that the Apple Music application for Android is likewise working toward lossless audio streaming.
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Lossless audio for Apple Music
The way things are, the Apple Music application offers just two quality options: one for higher quality and one for reduced data usage. These options are accessible as a basic toggle, for the most part permitting you to utilize less data when streaming while off Wi-Fi. As spotted in the iOS 14.6 beta, Apple Music is set to acquire Hi-Fi streaming options sooner rather than later.
With Apple Music 3.6.0 Beta, carrying out now by means of the Google Play Store, they have found similar signs of high-quality audio streaming and downloading options coming to Apple Music for Android. As you’d expect, Apple includes a prominent warning of how much data and storage high-quality audio uses.
Lossless audio files protect everything about the original file. Turning this on will consume significantly more data.
Lossless audio files will utilize altogether more space on your device. 10 GB of room could store around: – 3000 songs at high quality – 1000 songs with lossless – 200 songs with hi-res lossless
Lossless streaming will consume significantly more data. A 3-minute song will be approximately: – 1.5 MB with high efficiency- 6 MB with high quality at 256 kbps- 36 MB with lossless at 24-bit/48 kHz- 145 MB with hi-res lossless at 24-bit/192 kHzSupport varies and depends on song availability, network conditions, and connected speaker or headphone capability.
Prominently, where our associates at they saw references to things like “Dolby Atmos” and “Dolby Audio,” the Android app just mentions lossless audio, without any signs of Dolby integration. All the more explicitly, Apple Music for Android is set to offer two varieties of high-fidelity audio streaming/downloading, “Lossless” and “High-Res Lossless.”
The greatest difference between the two options is that High-res Lossless will offer (to) 192kHz audio versus the 48kHz offered in standard Lossless. The two organizations will utilize Apple’s lossless ALAC codec for music, versus the typical lossy AAC codec that Apple Music ordinarily uses to compress music.
Lossless
ALAC up to 24-bit/48 kHz
High-Res Lossless
ALAC up to 24-bit/192 kHz