Apple Music launches Apple Digital Masters collection of high-quality songs

[leonroy]

Interesting announcement by Apple:
https://www.appleinsider.com/articl...ital-masters-collection-of-high-quality-songs

Seems to be AAC 256kbit not ALAC and 24bit source material. Not quite sure what Apple are announcing to be honest or if this is more PR fluff over anything else.

More details:
https://www.apple.com/itunes/docs/apple-digital-masters.pdf

 

[BillG]

As long as they can maintain transparency, and I don't see why they couldn't since their encoder is consistently rated at or near #1 across numerous blind ABX tests, I doubt most people will really care that much.


As for the re-branding, that's typical when launching a revamped product...

 

[THW]

iirc Apple's lossy encoder is actually really good, used it with great results myself.

most people probably won't be able to tell an Apple AAC encoded file with lossless.

 

[Soniclife]

Just a re-branding with the death of iTunes, or something else?

The mastered for iTunes thing makes sense, it's the right way to do lossy.

 

[VincentYyl]

I'm fed up with Apple's apps, they're always hard to use for me. But I can't tell the difference between AAC and ALAC to be honest. I downloaded Apple Music songs with Tunelf Audio Converter and did a comparison with other format playing them on the same player, they're hardly different for me.