On December 29, foreign media 9to5Mac reported that Apple Music's 90 million songs seem to have reached lossless audio quality.
A few months ago, Apple Music announced that it would start mass support for lossless and Dolby Atmos. Apple said it will start with the existing 20 million lossless songs and upgrade all 90 million songs to lossless mode by the end of the year. After a lot of testing on the 9to5Mac, Apple seems to have completed this indicator, and did not find a single single or album that does not support lossless formats.
Apple's revenue today, revenue from software services is accounting for a larger and larger proportion. Apple Music is a very key part of this, Apple has long been in the Google Play and other application markets apple music app, but also brought Apple Music to the TV system of each family.
Apple is not only actively expanding the coverage of Apple Music, but also expanding the size of the music library. On November 9, Tencent Music Entertainment Group announced today that it has "entered into a music licensing agreement with Apple Music to distribute and promote licensed music works worldwide through the TME Music Cloud." "This agreement can further enhance the influence of Chinese music in the world." The Chinese library in Apple Music has been greatly improved, and the interface is simple, which is very suitable for users who only listen to a single song.
Apple Music fully support lossless, unfortunately, AirPods Pro and other headphones still can not hear lossless sound quality. This is mainly because the Bluetooth bandwidth is not enough to transmit lossless sound quality in real time. Moreover, it may only be some "old enthusiasts" who can hear the difference between lossless music and ordinary music.
For most people, the effect of spatial audio may be more obvious, lossless music has more details, and the pressure on computational audio such as spatial audio will be greater. The H1 chip in AirPods Pro doesn't necessarily do well with spatial audio calculations for lossless music.
In the future, Apple may bring new wireless transmission protocols, or new audio codecs, to support lossless audio transmission. Qualcomm's aptX Lossless Bluetooth audio codec launched this year has a maximum transmission rate of 1Mbps when listening to music, which is expected to achieve lossless music transmission with CD-level sound quality earlier.