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I keep hoping that Apple will come around to making their catalog available losslessly. I don’t need or want “HD” audio. I just want CD quality audio. I can’t p
by peatmoss 6y ago
I keep hoping that Apple will come around to making their catalog available losslessly. I don’t need or want “HD” audio. I just want CD quality audio. I can’t pick out artifacts in AAC 256 that some people claim to. But on the other hand, I (and this is unscientific) find that my ears get tired listening to compressed audio vs uncompressed streams.
Tidal and now Amazon offer lossless steaming, but I personally prefer the integration and UI of Apple Music with our various iDevices. I believe it also is still possible (though a little janky in the UI) to stream your own tracks back to yourself for when Apple Music is missing obscure recordings.
I keep saying it, but the perfect music service is obvious and nonexistent currently:
1. Good catalog of music
2. Lossless option (don’t believe it matters? Fine. Charge people who insist on it for the feature. I pay $25/month for a family Tidal subscription. You can think I’m a sucker.)
3. Let me add my own recordings with metadata and stream my unified catalog back to me in the same UI.
- colejohnson66 6y agoIt’d probably require renegotiating all their licenses with the RIAA and such. Granted, they did it before with 128 to 256 kbps (and removing DRM at the same time) quality. So, I’m sure they could, but the thing is most people don’t care.
- diebeforei485 6y agoI would also be willing to pay more for higher quality audio.