The “good sound” experience of Apple Music will change!
Explaining the charm of the lossless environment
Hear studio-produced sounds with more luxurious sound quality
How to Enjoy Lossless Audio on Your iPhone or Mac
Also began the distribution of “high resolution” beyond the losses without losses.
Enjoy immersive playback with Apple Music
Compatible with various headphones / earphones and sound bars
“Good sound” is the standard for Apple Music sounds you hear on your iPhone.
Starting in June, two new “good sound experiences” will be added to Apple Music, Apple’s flat-rate music distribution service. “Lossless Audio” and “Dolby Atmos Spatial Audio”. I would like to explain the contents of the service and the environment necessary to enjoy it.
We’ll explain the new “lossless audio” and “Dolby Atmos spatial audio” added to Apple Music.
Hear studio-produced sounds with more luxurious sound quality
Currently, the sound quality of Apple Music can be listened to while reducing the consumption of data capacity by using mobile communication transmission by iPhone / iPad while maintaining the quality of the sound source produced by the creator in the studio. to the user’s hand as It is. It is balanced and distributed as a 256 kbps AAC format file.
Newly added lossless audio is a technology for enjoying music playback in true-to-original sound quality, without loss due to compression processing. Apple Music uses “ALAC” (Apple Lossless Audio Codec), a lossless compression codec system that can be compressed and then decompressed while ensuring the quality of the original sound source.
As of the end of May 2021, Apple Music has more than 75 million songs distributed, but all songs in the catalog will be available in lossless audio, except for radio audio and music video. This Apple Music update will be available to subscribers in all 167 countries and territories around the world for the same monthly fee.
Apple Music is currently deployed in 167 countries and regions around the world. You can enjoy it at the same price even after adding a new service.
Enjoying lossless audio is very easy. For iPhone / iPad, you will be able to select lossless sound quality for mobile communication transmission, Wi-Fi and download in “Music” of the settings application. The default setting is “Off”, so you must set the necessary parts for each of the three listening methods to lossless.
Even if the lossless audio service starts, you can still choose to deliver in the traditional AAC format. This is because if you select lossless audio, especially in a mobile communication streaming environment, the bit rate will reach 1.4 Mbps or more during playback, and it will “gig down” at a faster speed than before. .
You can also download the songs you want to listen to on a device like an iPhone with lossless quality and listen to them offline. However, even in this case, the size of the lossless data will be larger than the distribution file in normal AAC format, so it seems necessary to adjust it according to the storage capacity of the iPhone or iPad.
