Apple Music dumbing down my Vinyl Studio recordings
I'm using Vinyl Studio to digitize my records at CD Quality 16/44.1 in the ALAC (Apple Lossless) format, and yet after saving into my iTunes/Apple Music library, they show up as 128 kbps AAC files? As Apple still is not offering High Res or at least CD quality music, I would at least like to preserve my vinyl (and CD) collection at CD quality (or above) on my Mac and listen to it that way too. I don't believe I ever used or turned on iTunes Match whereby Apple would convert your music (if it was available) to Apple Music 256 kbps files ( and even if it was enabled, wouldn't the tracks be 256kbps, not 128?) Whether I've ripped my own music or purchased something from HD Tracks, for example, I don't want iTunes/Apple Music to
replace it with an inferior quality version. What gives? Is there some setting I'm missing? This is very frustrating.
Mac mini, macOS 10.15