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Apple Music Launching Spatial Audio With Dolby Atmos and Lossless Audio in June at No Extra Cost

Orange Bat said:
It’s really weird that Apple discontinued HomePod only a couple of months ago. It seems like this announcement coupled with a slightly lower HomePod price might have pushed sales of the hardware. In retrospect, discontinuing HomePod when they did is one of the bigger head scratching decisions Apple has made lately IMO.
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It doesn't sell at that price. They can't even get rid of the inventory they have months after being discontinued.
 
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seinman said:
My understanding is, CarPlay already supports lossless audio using ALAC up to 16-bit/48 khz. So regular lossless tracks will play fine, but the high resolution lossless will likely not be supported.
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Yeah. It’s an iPhone limitation actually. But of course if you stream to your car over Bluetooth, then you’ve made it lossy.
 
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Mr. Heckles said:
If you buy a 2020 model car and the 2021 has upgraded stuff, are you getting those upgrades for free? No. It’s also like buying CDs years ago and now they have remastered versions out. If you want the remastered versions, you have to buy it again.
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If I buy the 2020 model car, then buy the 2021 model car I have done exactly what I wanted to do. I bought the 128 bit versions, then I bought the 256 bit versions and DRM free. Now I want to give iTunes my magic money card so I can re-buy these tracks with all the new quality improvements.
 
Orange Bat said:
It’s really weird that Apple discontinued HomePod only a couple of months ago. It seems like this announcement coupled with a slightly lower HomePod price might have pushed sales of the hardware. In retrospect, discontinuing HomePod when they did is one of the bigger head scratching decisions Apple has made lately IMO.
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Hard agree. I wonder if there may be a new HomePod coming. And potentially an Apple network streamer. Would be nice if Apple entered that market with a slick, well designed streamer to allow for 24/192 over Airplay 3
 
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citysnaps said:
It's about curiosity and wonderment.

Some people, often for their whole lives, have minds like a sponge, continuously soaking in new information/knowledge/music/etc that were previously unknown or unexposed to them. Others, sadly, have more sclerotic minds and curiosity levels, having lost their child-like wonderment entering adulthood.
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Oh get off your high horse!

We are talking about music. If I want to listen to The Beatles forever then I will, and it has nothing to do with my desire to learn new things by reading books etc.
 
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ruka.snow said:
Why? If you already own every song you listen to. Why would you pay monthly to stream the same songs you own?
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The answer to your question is in the question itself: Not everyone owns every song they listen to, or would listen to if they could.

New songs and artists come out. You want to discover new music. You want to listen to a song or album maybe once or twice, so it's not worth purchasing. You've got friends or family over, and they want to listen to their music. Your tastes in music change, and the albums you purchased previously don't get played much anymore. You mostly listen to a few genres, but listening to classical helps you study or read. You want to potentially play any of 75 million songs, but you couldn't find a spare $75 million between the couch cushions.
 
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ruka.snow said:
If I buy the 2020 model car, then buy the 2021 model car I have done exactly what I wanted to do. I bought the 128 bit versions, then I bought the 256 bit versions and DRM free. Now I want to give iTunes my magic money card so I can re-buy these tracks with all the new quality improvements.
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LOL - The Verge confirmed it's on streaming only 😛 Sorry!

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/17/22440090/apple-music-lossless-audio-dolby-atmos-support-audio
Apple has confirmed to The Verge that lossless audio is exclusive to Apple Music and thus subscription-only. The company won’t offer music purchases in lossless quality, nor will there be any way to upgrade owned tracks to lossless with the paid iTunes Match service.
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tkermit said:
That's not quite true. Matched songs don't have any DRM, songs added from Apple Music do.

It would be incredibly annoying and very un-Apple-like if I had to delete my existing purchases and re-add them from Apple Music in order to take advantage of the higher audio quality though.
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sorry yeah thats the difference, i just mean within the app

im curious how they are going to handle this from a UI point of view. Can we download the whole lossless file or is it streaming? If we have the AAC downloaded, do we have to delete and download Lossless?

What if you want to listen to Lossless but keep an AAC hard copy on your laptop for travel?
 
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Any word on Spotify’s reaction to this latest development? Have they announced a lossless and/or Hi-Fi tier officially yet?
 
ruka.snow said:
MacRumours content changes by the second. My music tracks don't. Between 2000 and 2021 I have added the seven songs or so that where missing in my library. I only need to track down one or two more.
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So the band you listen too never put out new music? So far this year 5 band I like came out with new music or will in a few months.
 
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jimothyGator said:
The answer to your question is in the question itself: Not everyone owns every song they listen to, or would listen to if they could.

New songs and artists come out. You want to discover new music. You want to listen to a song or album maybe once or twice, so it's not worth purchasing. You've got friends or family over, and they want to listen to their music. Your tastes in music change, and the albums you purchased previously don't get played much anymore. You mostly listen to a few genres, but listening to classical helps you study or read. You want to potentially play any of 75 million songs, but you couldn't find a spare $75 million between the couch cushions.
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257 tracks, 200 listened to with any frequency. 7 at most are 'new' from 2000-2020. I have no interest in the existence of new artists. From what I can observe with the exception of this forum, owning your music from your formative years is the norm and pushing past the music you listened to between 16 and 25 is rare. I am sure my library would be a little larger if I listened to music before I turned 16, but that would still set my limit at 2011 at the latest and I don't have anything newer than Polovtsian Dances, The Great Classic Orchestra, 2007.
 
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Like others, I buy the music I really love. But only As a hard copy. I have no problem streaming music, especially since the music market isn’t fractured like streaming video: we generally get access to everything without subscribing to multiple services. However, if you’re buying music on, say, iTunes, you still could lose access to that music at some point. If you truly want to “own” it to make sure it’s available forever and ever, then a hard copy is the only way to go.
 
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