Lossless Apple music on PC

"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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@imfrancis, Bluestacks works for me like you suggested.

However, the audio is getting downsampled to 24/48 like it does on my Android device.

Is this to be expected even when playing 24/192 or 24/96?

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.

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.

You can enable it on a iTunes Windows. Just go to the Edit tab > Preferences > Playback, and set the sample rate and bits per sample audio to 192kHz and 24-bit respectively.

It's hardly discrimination as there is no extra cost for lossless. It was offered free to existing subscribers

Nope. If the service offered differs for different people, that is discrimination. The service is the same for everyone

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

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

I agree, in the press release I believe they described it as available to all. Or is my definition of ALL different?

Well a PC is very capable of doing it, apple has just chosen not to make software (or the web site) for the PC.

Well that sounds good, problem is the file info for a song still says 256knps

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

Decent answer. But next time? Don’t be so condescending. This forum has a rule about being polite.

Hi,

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

Jim