They are individually labeled as lossless or Apple Digital Master. Or no label is the original and unchanged. Plus you need open settings and change there also.
Right. But Iām grandfathered for life through Verizon as long as I have Verizon. And if I dropped it Iād just pay the $9.99/mo
As far as I know AirPlay 2 is capped at lossless and canāt do hires. Well 24/48k is currently limit. It will just downsample. Can anyone verify thatās the case?
So you have a grandfathered Apple Music plan? Neat. Wasnāt there a grandfathered data plan at some stage too?
I have that also. But they throttle the speed after 22 gā¦still itās a great plan. $108/mo unlimited everything plus Apple. Had Disney+ for a year, and I could have lots of others I havenāt bothered with. The only reason I did Disney was for Hamilton (which is spectacularā¦if you are a Yank?)
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I donāt think itās really clear at this stage. Airplay was limited to lossless CD quality. Airplay 2 focussed on multiroom playback at launch but we believe there is capability for hi-res lossless streams, maybe this just needs to be enabled on source devices and Airplay 2 capable endpoints. Apple had little interest implementing hi-res lossless when their ecosystem didnāt support it. You could Airplay hi-res lossless downloaded files from iTunes but they got transcoded to CD quality max.
In some ways a bit of smoke and mirrors.
Equally the 24 bit 48kHz lossless would generally be considered hi-res. The phrase generally refers to any lossless better than CD quality files/streams.
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But I tell yaā¦As Sued was pointing out the ABC on the apā¦I HATE icons. Wellā¦I hate that Iām supposed to know what they all mean. All you 40 and unders grew up with this crap. Itās foreign to me, not at all intuitive, and scary. Touch one, it changes the page, us old farts have no idea how to get backā¦it would be just lovely if there was a common spot for a key for the F$%*ing things.
I was just taking a pic. It takes āburstsā of 10. They all are uploaded to my cloud until I pick one. I donāt even know how. I tried. So I tried to turn off the burst. More F*&%ing research??? F&*$. Iām 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 Iāll hike your butt offā¦
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I have it as of today. Everything is clearly marked.
I believe you choose what you buy and how to download it in settings. Thereās a warning about data usage.
Tried to buy the album but it didnāt allow to make any choice for format, so this is max 320k resolutionā¦
No it wonāt. Itās limited to 44.1 you canāt get hires at all via Airplay currently and no comments from Apple on when or if it can.
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 Iām 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 canāt even Airplay lossless CD qualuty from Apple Music yet and we get the 256kbps AAC version we used to still.
Hi @Simon-in-Suffolk et all,
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.
So example:
Now lets turn on the internal metrics airplay2 trace:
Observe the aac 256kbit link.
As and when Apple āopen the tapsā 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.
Best regards
Steve Harris
Software Director
Naim Audio Ltd.
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I see those options in Settings for Music but think they apply only to streaming and streaming related downloads. Hope Iām wrong but actual purchases are probably still limited to lossy 256kbps AAC.
So @stevesky are your saying itās sending out aac via Airplay and not lossless at all? Is this just to Naim devices or all of them?
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Yeah he is saying that . Also evidenced it.
That was a pretty interesting blind test. 
Bloody Apple!!
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Hopefully the key phrase is ācurrentlyā.
Itās quite similar to Amazon āHDā where superficially things look great but in practice getting hires to devices is a real hurdle.
Yes. See my earlier post which shows the airplay2 metrics screen reporting aac.
Best
Steve
Not ALAC.