But I tell ya…As Sued was pointing out the ABC on the ap…I HATE icons. Well…I hate that I’m supposed to know what they all mean. All you 40 and unders grew up with this crap. It’s foreign to me, not at all intuitive, and scary. Touch one, it changes the page, us old farts have no idea how to get back…it would be just lovely if there was a common spot for a key for the F$%*ing things.
I was just taking a pic. It takes “bursts” of 10. They all are uploaded to my cloud until I pick one. I don’t even know how. I tried. So I tried to turn off the burst. More F*&%ing research??? F&*$. I’m retired. I want to (legally) get stoned, listen to music and walk in the woods and mountains all around me. I have zero interest in any research whatsoever. Sorry. Intellectually lazy? Maybe. But I’ll hike your butt off…
Have what? While I see spatial audio and lossless icons in the AppleMusic subscription area on my iPhone, I am far from convinced the higher quality audio can be currently Airplayed to my Nova without downconverting to lossless CD quality.
We may be streaming lossless hires but Airplay may be processing that to CD quality currently.
To avoid confusion I’m referringvto Airplay from iPhone X with current iOS.
My Mac is older and running an older iTunes on High Sierra.
edit: later posts suggest we can’t even Airplay lossless CD qualuty from Apple Music yet and we get the 256kbps AAC version we used to still.
Currently Apple are forcing an aac link on Airplay2 when using Apple Music, even if the ui is saying lossless. This was documented on one of their FAQ pages.
Observe the aac 256kbit link.
As and when Apple ‘open the taps’ then that can go to 16/44.1 alac. Beyond that will need Apple to update Airplay2 in devices. There will be complexities of switching rates, gapless, buffer sizes and clock tracking different rates.
I see those options in Settings for Music but think they apply only to streaming and streaming related downloads. Hope I’m wrong but actual purchases are probably still limited to lossy 256kbps AAC.
