Apple Music Streaming Quality Setting
Obviously in addition to the normal sonos settings within their app as well.
Apple music streaming quality setting. Guessing you knew the above but hope it. Go to playback toggle both use cellular data and high quality on cellular on. Go to apple music app select menu then settings.
In the settings choose the apple music kbps to 320kbps sample rate to 48000hz and set output format as mp3. How to enable high quality streaming in apple music over cellular fire up settings music cellular data. The streaming music wars are on with apple music and spotify now locked in a battle on price features and artist selection.
Automatic recommended the default setting this adjusts the music quality automatically based on bandwidth availability and other considerations low equivalent to 24 kbps normal 96 kbit s high 160. Tap at cellular data and allow apple music to use both wlan cellular data. But how do they compare on sound quality.
Apple music streams at a bitrate of 256kbps which seems lower than spotify s 320 kbp s at face value but it s not exactly like for like because apple music uses its own aac audio codec. We put them head to head to. This should be enabled by default.
To change streaming music quality open settings. If you want a lossless format you need to choose flac or wav. Apple music is equipped with the format of aac which can reach the highest bit rate at 256kbps.
Settings music where you can choose the quality of the music during streaming as well as alter eq volume limits and sound check features. Select the streaming music quality you d like to use. We can confirm that the songs stored in apple s icloud library are 256kbps aac the same as your older itunes downloads but there s no obvious way of telling how songs streamed in apple music differ over wi fi or cellular.