Apple Music for Android reveals that lossless sound might be imminent.

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Apple may have bigger plans for next week than initially thought.The new iMac, iPad Pro and Apple TV 4K are all set to begin shipping early May 21 or around May 21. But now it looks like there might be two surprising announcements: Apple Music's HiFi streaming level and maybe even AirPods 3.The Apple Music section seems very plausible when you consider a report from 9to5Google, delving into the latest beta of the Apple Music for Android app, they discovered a direct reference to High-Resolution Audio that had never been before.This is the prompt found in the app's code, even though it hasn't been confronted by the user yet:

Lossless audio files preserve every detail of the slotxo ออโต้ original file. Opening this will use significantly more information.It's not more direct and clear than that, with Apple's warnings about the higher data usage of lossless music streaming and the increased storage space required for downloads to listen offline. The fact that Apple has now added this to its Android apps suggests that this could happen sooner or later. I say it's because Apple's Apple One Bundle appeared in Apple Music for Android just days before its public announcement.The Android app code also reveals that Apple Music will offer two options for lossless playback:

It looks like Apple is intent on pairing what Tidal, Amazon Music HD, and services like Qobuz currently offer. It's also worth noting that there is a recent reference to Dolby Atmos spatial audio in Apple Music on iOS, according to 9to5Mac.Apple has stuck with 256kbps AAC since 2007.Apple has been stuck with 256kbps AAC files for both iTunes and Apple Music for years when iTunes Plus was released in 2007.That's a huge upgrade from the heavily compressed MP3 files people download from the app peerless. Peer-to-peer such as Napster and Limewire during the peak of music piracy. And still completely enough Learning tracks has as much of an impact on the music experience as coding details, and Apple has tried to play this aspect with “Apple Digital Masters,

whose goal is to get dynamic range and detail from the music on the platform. The most But in terms of pure music fidelity, Apple has been overtaken by companies like Tidal and Amazon over the years.My friend Micah Singleton had a great work at Billboard about how we entered the HiFi era of The streaming music war, Amazon Music HD is doing well, with subscriptions growing 100 percent year over year. Spotify also promises to launch "Spotify Hi-Fi" later this year.There's money to do and all the ingredients out there: Apple now sells premium headphones on the AirPods Max, and the wireless carrier still talks about the promises and the speed of the growing 5G network. I couldn't imagine 5G needed for lossless Apple Music streaming. But it's a great tech flexibility in the middle of the iPhone 12 cycle.


What about those AirPods 3?

There are a few leaks that reveal details about Apple's next iteration of AirPods, but the real question lies at the moment of the release. Yesterday, reports from a website called AppleTrack suggested that new AirPods could be announced alongside this new level of Apple Music. I rarely follow my own logic. Nobody thinks regular AirPods are the right choice for audiophile listening, but perhaps Apple needs some new hardware to launch alongside the new service.The AirPods rumor, taken by themselves, seems "imperfect," according to 9to5Mac, but the sudden discovery of lossless audio in Apple Music for Android appears to add fuel to the fire.