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I hate the idea that everyone is going to be using 10x data needlessly. What's next, uncompressed video?
by copperx 5y ago
I hate the idea that everyone is going to be using 10x data needlessly. What's next, uncompressed video?
- simondotau 5y agoI disagree with your flat assertion of 10x. The vast majority of Apple Music lossless audio will be CD-quality ALAC which has a variable bitrate generally between 2x and 4x that of 256kbps AAC. A small subset of music available to stream will also be "high res" with bitrates in the realm of 5x to 10x. It also won't be "everyone" using this but rather only a small percentage of people—and within that subset, many will only choose it for a limited subset of music and in a limited subset of listening contexts. It wouldn't surprise me if lossless was chosen by fewer than 1% of consumers. Therefore in aggregate, the increase is going to be somewhere closer to 1.1x, not 10x.