Hi-Res Lossless music stops playing when the screen locks.

I suspect the problem occurs not only for 192 kHz but for all files with sampling rate > 96 kHz (strictly greater than).

I have for example the same problem with this album which is at 176.4 kHz:

https://music.apple.com/fr/album/anima-sacra/1435328486?l=en

Hi bmlee85!

It sounds like Hi-Res Lossless downloads are pausing when your screen locks, and we're happy to help. Are you using an external digital-to-analog converter to listen to those tracks?

About lossless audio in Apple Music

Cheers!

Lucky you !

I tried again deleting and reinstalling the music app, but that didn’t solve the problem.

Example of album the problem occurs on : https://music.apple.com/fr/album/chopin-pr%C3%A9ludes-piano-sonata-no-2/1452250170?l=en

I have this issue as well. Not all 24/192 behave like this, which is weird as well.

for example: Hotel California (Eagles) will stop playing but not the latest album by Japanese Breakfast.

I’ve also noticed that the audio stops but that the song still run in the background. Like audio is muted. It doesn’t pause.

I use a pair of Audeze iSine with a built in DAC.

I have exactly the same problem.

I have tested on many albums at different sampling rates, and it happens only and systematically on 192 kHz albums.

It happens on both my iPhone 11 pro max and my iPad pro 12.9” 4th generation.

it happens both when using iPhone internal speakers and headphones with the lightning to jack dongle.

I also removed all albums, reset my iPhone completely and redownloaded the albums, the problem persists (on a virgin iphone with latest iOs 14.6).

I spent several days listening to music without any problems (on Apple Music)… one day I realized just 2 songs had this issue, because they were Hi Ress Lossless files. The only thing I could do to play this files, without them pausing when locking my iphone (11 pro max), was to delete and re download the hi res songs, this works for about 5 or 10 mins and then it locks again… the new hi res option is pretty awesome for the audio enthusiasts. They will fix it, I’m pretty sure Apple will take some weeks to solve this, let’s be patient.

Having the same problem— however— not with high bit/hi-res sample rates. (I don’t have any music in that format)

I’ve narrowed the tracks on my device with this problem down to AIFF and WAV filetypes (both at 44.1k)

There are others on Apple community with this issue. Again, I suspect this to be more of a bug with the file types (not being m4a or mp3) as opposed to just sampling rate.

either way Apple needs to figure this out and fix this. Tracks from cds/ exports from Logic, etc are all affected by this.

Okay.

after a brief discussion with Apple Care, they suggested me to remove the app and install it again.

it seems to be working now.

Well. I might not be so lucky after all. The problem came back. I’ve been asked to erase all content and settings, but I feel like others have tried and that it don’t work.

I’m thinking about it…

I guess it’s not worth it. Just have to be patient while Apple fixes all the issues.