Apple Music Apple Music Lossless on Mac, only available to music in your library?

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I try to play music that's lossless in playlists in "Browse" section, the lossless logo doesn't come up, but when create and add the album to a playlist, then the lossless logo come up, is the same behaviour for everyone?
 
On my Mac the lossless logo was showing in the now playing banner yesterday but not today, checking the file info and I do not think the lossless versions are streaming.
 
sneeks said:
On my Mac the lossless logo was showing in the now playing banner yesterday but not today, checking the file info and I do not think the lossless versions are streaming.
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I'm streaming random stuff from my "Station" right now and get the icon in the now playing banner. Have you restarted the Music app?
 
casperes1996 said:
I'm streaming random stuff from my "Station" right now and get the icon in the now playing banner. Have you restarted the Music app?
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Yes I’ve restarted the app and checked all the settings so it should be working. It was yesterday but today no sign of the lossless logo in the now playing banner.
 
sneeks said:
Yes I’ve restarted the app and checked all the settings so it should be working. It was yesterday but today no sign of the lossless logo in the now playing banner.
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Hm. Weird. Is it there if you have it in your library like the OP? Downloaded? - Guess there's a chance it's an early rollout issue server-side or something where it depends which CDN server you get a hold of
 
casperes1996 said:
Hm. Weird. Is it there if you have it in your library like the OP? Downloaded? - Guess there's a chance it's an early rollout issue server-side or something where it depends which CDN server you get a hold of
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I’ll try that later, I’ve also noticed the same issue on my iPad. Viewing the now playing screen in Music doesn’t show any Atmos or lossless logo but it does on my iPhone. Maybe Apple are making adjustments and it’ll reappear later.
 
Ye, same with mine, (I think) it was playing lossless yesterday for music in "Playlist" section, but it's not doing that now.
 
same problem encountered.
yesterday everything was fine, but it gets weird today.
i am using macbook with the music app.
have restarted the app and machine for times but it doesn't help.
once the songs(file?) are added to library, and if you play them within the library section everything is back to normal.
probably it is the server side problem. i think apple is fine tuning the service?
 
Tested this some more and like the original poster I have the same experience. No lossless icom when I play a supported track via browsing Apple Music but if I then add the track to my library and play from there I get the lossless version and the icon does show in the now playing window.
 
Looks like there is a workaround:
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I too, am having this same issue.

Just got an external DAC and headphones today, and was excited to try out Hi-Res Lossless on Apple Music. My setup is done, and I noticed that Apple Music does not always play Hi-Res Lossless, even if the album is supported.

For example, let's take Journey's Greatest Hits album, which supports Hi-Res Lossless. I'll search for "Journey" in Apple Music, click on the Greatest Hits album and play a track. When playing a track, I noticed that the "Lossless logo" is not present in the track bar. See below.
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However, if I click on the three dots of the song that is currently playing and go to "Show Album in Library"
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And then I play any track after selecting "Show Album in Library", that track will play in Hi-Res Lossless.
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I've read another post where Re-authorizing (Go to Account>Authorizations>Authorize this computer) your computer might help. For me, it did not work though.

What I noticed helps sometimes is deleting an album from my library and the re-adding it and try playing it again, and then it will sometimes automatically play Hi-Res Lossless. Most of the time I still have to go to “Show Album in Library” for it to play Hi-Res Lossless.

I was testing out different Hi-Res Lossless songs and I played Yellow by Coldplay. It wasn’t playing in Hi-Res (although it should have been) and I was curious to see the info on it. I went to “Get Info” and then I noticed It was linking me to the Yellow in their Live 2012 album rather than the Yellow in their Parachutes album (which is where I was playing it from). I even went to “Show Album in Library” and it brought me to the Live 2012 album rather than Parachutes. I fixed it by deleting both albums from my Library and then adding them back. But they still don’t play Hi-Res automatically 🤦🏻‍♂️

Seems like a number of issues on the Music app on macOS...
 
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