Lossless Apple music on PC

Thanks to the rollout of Apple Music Lossless on Android, you can now listen to Apple Music Lossless through an android emulator like Bluestacks or Android Studio.

It works well but I don't know if this is going to support Dolby Atmos in the future tho but for now this is a good backup while we wait for Apple to hopefully add Apple Music Lossless and Spatial Audio support on iTunes or maybe release a new Apple Music app for Windows.

Naitohanta, that setting has absolutely nothing to do with Apple Music audio quality, as was already explained earlier in this thread. The setting in Edit -> Preferences -> Playback only sets the audio quality that iTunes will play back at. If the audio file in iTunes that you are playing is a high resolution audio file (192Khz / 24-bit) then it will be played back by iTunes in that quality. But if the audio coming into iTunes is of lower quality, what comes out of iTunes to your speakers will also be of the same low quality. And at the moment, ALL Appe Music tracks are playing in low (lossy) quality via iTunes, period.

Last response as you seem to have a tenuous grasp of the word discrimination, and how you are offered exactly the same service as everyone else. I have a Mac. If I listen on Mac, I get lossless. If you listen on Mac, you get lossless. You have a PC. If you listen on PC, you don’t get lossless. If I listen on PC, I don’t get lossless. Therefore the exact same service is offered to both of us. Just because your device does not support a feature being offered, does not mean you are being offered something different. You are free to choose any device you like.

It’s like saying that Sony are discriminating against PS4 users by offering PS5 games on PS+, when you don’t own a PS5. The service is the same for everyone. You just need a compatible device.

I hope this helps. As I said. I will not be responding any further. The app is on its way to PC. If you can’t wait, you are free to use a compatible device, or subscribe to a lossless service that is compatible with you device.

But to answer your original post, yes you will, but not yet.

From what I gather in:

About lossless audio in Apple Music - Apple Support

I don't believe it is currently available or possible with a PC.

Hi,

The music being streamed from iTunes on windows via Apple Music will still be 256 Kbps AAC.

Jim

"Spatial Audio and Lossless audio is propriety to specific devices and headphones used. Only a few devices and headphones can take advantage of it and all are owned by Apple"

"Spatial Audio" - in the context that Apple uses it - is provided by Dolby in the form of Dolby Atmos. That has been available on both android and PC for years. The surprising thing is how long Apple took to add it to their devices. They only own - recently - a few devices that can take advantage of something Windows and Android users have been using for years

"Lossless" audio is not owned by Apple. That too has been available to android and windows users for years - indeed, in the case of Windows, decades. Or, if you argued that vinyl is, by definition, the first "lossless" audio medium, you could say it has been available for over a hundred years - in some form or other.

Hope that helps.

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OMG! theres still no lossless support for windows. Theres simply no point getting apple music without lossless windows support

This is a late but you do have access to lossless audio on windows. You have to go to edit>preferences>playback. From there you can choose audio, sample rate, and bits per sample. These will all changed to lossless and if I remember correctly the high res would be the 24/192

I believe if you go to music.apple.com and use that instead of iTunes on Windows, you'll get that.

How do we know? The albums are not displayed as "lossless or Hi Res", there is no indication of what format you are listening to. Am I to go on faith that Apple is delivering the highest quality? Sorry I need proof. For what is is worth I have an un-used ipad, I connected an external DAC and connected to my pure Class A HiFi and I do hear the difference. Since I am not going to hear the difference (IMO) in my car or with Headphones I am not worried about it too much, and $14.99 for a family plan who can beat that?

I too would like to see the lossless and hi-res formats now included with an Apple Music subscription accessible via my Windows PC versus the compressed 256 AAC format. Our family has iphones and Ipads and I can hear an audible quality difference with Apple Music in their new lossless and hi-res settings, using an external DAC and decent headphones with those devices. By comparison, when I listen to Apple Music via my Windows PC in their only available lossy format, it sounds much lower quality to me. Since I'm paying the same subscription price as both Windows PC and Mac users, why does Apple not make the new features (free or not) available to PC users? The new features are now part of the expected, overall feature set and for some, part of the decision whether to subscribe to Apple Music or some other lossless or hi res service, including Amazon HD Music, which by the way, offers lossless and hi res and as far as I know, is "device neutral".

Apple need to respect the customers or just stop services outside the eco system. Grow up apple. U brag how u love music and then u don't give what customers deserve even when they are loyal customers of apple music. What a shame

Look, I am not happy about this as I built a windows PC "jukebox" and have all my CD's ripped as FLAC and some 24\192 FLAC. In the end I needed a new DAC anyway so I purchased a refurbished ipad mini 4 and a compatible DAC and moved on. I am really only concerned with 24\192 at home on my Tube system with Thiel speakers anyway.

It is possible to play 24/192 on windows, Apple is just not considering other peoples view and diversity.