Apple Music Will Apple ever release lossless streaming on Apple Music?

[t.n.d.]

I'm a big Apple Music fan due to the interface and library, but not being able to stream lossless is starting to become a deal breaker for me.

Not sure why they gave access to third parties to the Dolby Atmos and not loses.

Currently on the fence to switch to TIDAL, I got a Sonos Beam 2 and 2 x Sonos One SL.

Dolby Atmos barely gets in the Ones (only the Beam is compatible), but lossless from TIDAL is streaming 100% volume everywhere.

My only gripe is that I can't upload music on TIDAL and some of their remastered albums are awful.

Hoping for a change with iOS 18 as closing between lossless bad dynamic range vs compressed good dynamic range via Airplay 2 (when the protocol is capable of streaming 24bit audio) is starting to iritate me.

 

[Helmsley]

Bluetooth is lossy. The connection between your device and AirPods 2 is therefore lossy.

Have a read of this thread on Reddit. It applies also to AirPods 2.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Airpodsmax/comments/nfc1h3

 

[t.n.d.]

Bluetooth is lossy. The connection between your device and AirPods 2 is therefore lossy.

Have a read of this thread on Reddit. It applies also to AirPods 2.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Airpodsmax/comments/nfc1h3

AirPlay 2 isn’t lossy though

 

[Apleeseed84]

I'm a big Apple Music fan due to the interface and library, but not being able to stream lossless is starting to become a deal breaker for me.

Not sure why they gave access to third parties to the Dolby Atmos and not loses.

Currently on the fence to switch to TIDAL, I got a Sonos Beam 2 and 2 x Sonos One SL.

Dolby Atmos barely gets in the Ones (only the Beam is compatible), but lossless from TIDAL is streaming 100% volume everywhere.

My only gripe is that I can't upload music on TIDAL and some of their remastered albums are awful.

Hoping for a change with iOS 18 as closing between lossless bad dynamic range vs compressed good dynamic range via Airplay 2 (when the protocol is capable of streaming 24bit audio) is starting to iritate me.

Dumb question but did you ever enable the Hi-Res and Lossless option on the Apple Music settings? All the songs are lossless unless enabled however I turned off Dolby because it’s useless to me. With that mentioned I use a dac with Headphones setup at the moment.

 

[Fuga]

AirPlay 2 isn’t lossy though

Airplay 2 is lossy. Airplay 1 is lossless. Why is beyond me.

 

[Justin Cymbal]

Apple does now support lossless and it works on the new HomePod:

How to Enable Dolby Atmos Spatial Audio and Apple Lossless on HomePod

Apple's ‌HomePod‌ (first- and second-generation) and HomePod mini feature support for Apple Music's Lossless Audio and Dolby Atmos Spatial...

www.macrumors.com

I actually bought one the other day when Verizon had it on sale:

Verizon Launches Rare Discounts on Apple TV 4K ($89.99) and 2nd Gen HomePod ($174.99)

Verizon today has a few rare Apple deals, including record low prices on the 64GB Apple TV 4K and second generation HomePod. These deals are...

www.macrumors.com

Hopefully Verizon does that sale again so you can buy one to get lossless audio

I can say that the sound quality is phenomenal compared to my first gen HomePod and I’ve been using Apple Lossless via my M1 iMac 🖥️ since Apple made it available