Okay but Homepods already do Dolby Atmos. and Lossless will eventually come.
Yea, you’re looking at the source audio.
Ummm, read the headline. There is nothing left to interpretation. I called out the fact the headline indicated a definitive stance which was contradicted quickly by the articles contents.
And no. There were, as usual, no release notes. (Not that Macrumors would have included them anyways.)
Also, that’s a horrible comparison. You don’t release an article without at least attempting to source or fact check. Whatever you may think, it literally took me 10 minutes after installing Beta 3 to start a log, stream various audio at varying quality, with and without Apple TV and toggling different settings, to then pull the log and confirm Homepods are still using AAC. That’s me. If Macrumors can’t even be bothered to write their own content, that’s fine. But to piggyback of another sites “rumours” and not fact-check anything, full knowing users (Like myself, until today) rely on the site as a source for news about new features for their Mac devices- is just disappointing.
However you want to spin it, the article headline is misleading, and it’s false. Software did not introduce Lossless support. It did not introduce that any user would interpret as increasing the likelihood of Lossless.
I would expect Macrumors to just issue a correction this was incorrect, and they will approach with caution in the future when hijacking rumours from other sites. Or just label it as such.
