Is there a way to stream lossless songs while having the same song purchased on iTunes in my iPhone music library?

Every time I try to play Lossless songs from Apple Music, I can only listen to the lossless version if I don't have that specific song/album purchased on iTunes in my library.


If I try to play the lossless version of a song that I already bought, the first time I get a message saying "Playing Downloaded Version. This song was downloaded in Stereo High Quality and the downloaded version will always be played. To listen it in Dolby Atmos, remove the download and play the song again."


Since I have no interest in Dolby Atmos, I disabled it in Music settings while maintaining the Lossless Audio options set to High-Resolution Lossless. But the same problem persists.


The only way I can stream those songs in that quality, is to erase them from my library. But I don't want to do that because I like to play them in third party apps. And if I download the lossless version from the Music app, I can only play them there and if I have a Apple Music active subscription .


I don't want to necessarily download songs in lossless, it would be fine if I could only stream them while I have a active internet connection/Apple Music subscription.


Is there a way to stream lossless songs without having to erase the same versions from my library?

iPhone XS Max, iOS 14

Posted on Jun 9, 2021 2:07 PM

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Jun 10, 2021 12:36 PM in response to POPAddicted

Hello POPAddicted,


We see that you want to avoid redownloading music to get the lossless version.


As illustrated in the link above, you need to redownload library items to get the lossless version. There is currently no way to stream lossless and have the stereo version saved to your library.


If this is something you'd like to see changed in the future, you can submit that feedback to Apple here: Product Feedback


Take care!

Jun 17, 2021 5:37 PM in response to POPAddicted

I’ve been looking for exactly this!! That is so annoying how you can’t specifically stream in lossless even tho you have the songs downloaded for when I’m in the car! But when I get home to the Cambridge audio CXN and want to stream lossless I have to delete the songs and stream it in higher quality. I feel like this could be such a easy option if you are on wifi it should automatically stream the lossless version!! Man on the moon, but can’t go hi res automatically smh

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