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.