Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio

Post by sbaildon » Mon, May 17, 2021, 5:10 PM UTC

ekingr wrote: post #315

sbaildon wrote: post #249

Apple can add feature after feature, but if Music continues to split albums without warning, it's close to useless. I can't curate a music library when I can't rely on my music not being jumbled around. Dropping music for licensing issues is one thing, but messing with metadata is beyond frustrating. For arbitrary reasons, Apple Music will: remove songs from albums and re-add them to your library as the "single" or "…

I agree so much! I switched to Apple Music 2 years ago when my hard drive failed. At the beginning it was alright, very convenient to have (almost) everything available on hand, in the same app as before. But now I can't stand it anymore. I have so many albums that randomly split all the time, version of tracks that change or become unavailable altogether. I'm moving away from streaming and am working on building bac…

Post by haecceity » Mon, May 17, 2021, 5:11 PM UTC

JohnBooty wrote: post #299

TeMPOraL wrote: post #206

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Problem is, sometimes when you learn how to spot a deficiency, you can't unlearn it and stop spotting it. It's like with kerning[0] or image compression artifacts. Everyone has a different level, and I haven't measured mine, but even when casually listening to music - including music from bad speakers in a waiting room somewhere - I can identify too badly compressed music and get immediately annoyed by it. -- [0] - h…

It's like with kerning Kerning is a great comparison, I think. Studies have shown that well-compressed lossy audio is nearly indistinguishable from the originals. This is certainly true for me. I can sometimes pick out the compressed version if I know the track well and can look for specific details, but generally I'm absolutely not consciously aware of any compression artifacts. Similarly, I doubt most people could…

Post by matwood » Mon, May 17, 2021, 5:13 PM UTC

fullstop wrote: post #337

reaperducer wrote: post #312

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Until your streaming service gets sold, goes out of business, "pivots," decides you or your worldviews aren't trendy, thinks you're a hacker, screws up your billing, drops support for your device, or any of the hundreds of other reasons the music suddenly stops.

Sorry, I am just not that paranoid. I had cassettes until the late 90s, CDs until the mid-2000s, and Spotify since then. Spotify isn't going anywhere.

Post by Waterluvian » Mon, May 17, 2021, 5:18 PM UTC

cies wrote: post #23

From the article: > J Balvin said: [...] With Lossless, everything in the music is going to sound bigger and stronger but more importantly, it will be better quality. [...] There have been tests showing we cannot hear the difference between minimally lossy audio (e.g. mp3 320kbps) and lossless. But Balvin can. And it sounds "bigger and stronger". The extra quality of lossless is nice when mixing/remixing the sound, a…

Post by 52-6F-62 » Mon, May 17, 2021, 5:19 PM UTC

floatingatoll wrote: post #260

xd1936 wrote: post #16

Can't wait to listen to 192kHz/24-bit on my AAC Bluetooth AirPods

Can't wait to listen to 192kHz/24-bit on my macOS desktop with my preexisting 192kHz/24-bit audio pathway!