Apple Music High Quality Audio

All former mastered for itunes songs will continue to be available under the apple digital masters program.

Apple music high quality audio. Apple music s settings aren t public but sources reckon they re 256 kbps aac on wi fi and 128 kbps on cellular connections. But that doesn t spell death to apple s hi res audio download ambitions. Comparing to spotify which has the highest bit rate at 320kbps ogg apple music has a lower bit rate.

So while apple has not formally announced the bitrates that its songs stream at we can confirm that the highest bitrate of apple music songs is 256kbps which is lower than the 320 kbps offered by spotify radio tidal and so on. There s no manual override. Maxed out the 9 99 premium options provide broadly comparable 320 kbps but tidal s hifi subscription 19 99 monthly offers cd quality 1411 kbps flac.

You d be forgiven if you forgot about apple s mastered for itunes program. Most of today s top releases are. Normally the locally saved apple music files are 256 kbps aac files the same as itunes store downloads.

Mastered for itunes was launched in 2012 as a set of guidelines and software tools to optimize itunes music by encoding from. Here s where to find the high quality music streams. It was supposed to offer near master quality audio from compressed files thanks to clever processing.

And 71 percent of the top global songs has been officially renamed now that itunes has. Apple music is equipped with the format of aac which can reach the highest bit rate at 256kbps. Although the higher bit rate means a better quality.

Apple music s max audio quality is set to 256 kbps while spotify is 320 kbps. The extremely successful initiative which currently contains 75 percent of the top 100 songs in the u s. Apple digital masters provide premium quality audio without any additional cost on apple music and the itunes store.