Apple Music - Is Chromecast lossless?

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@litemotiv

That’s fascinating since all the technical information i can find online, including from Google themselves, points to 96Khz as the maximum bitrate:

https://support.google.com/chromecast/answer/6279377?hl=en

I found this by chance and thought you’ll find it interesting:

NDX 2 Garbled Hi Res

Hi @Drinkwine Your problem is something completely different. Chromecast and Qobuz has issues on hidef (Chromecast just isn’t really designed to handle beyond 96kHz, but Qobuz send unsupported streams and hope it will play). However when playing from inside Naim via the Naim app it handles it fine and we buffer many minutes of audio. If its dropping out it indicates it just can’t get the data from Qobuz’s data centre or there is a local network issue (eg. streamer is connected on 2.4GHz, …