Article: Apple Music's Lossless and Hi-Res Mess

[jzahr]

Hi all,

Thanks Chris for taking the time to do these tests. I tend to think that this lack of bit perfect playback is more a technical issue that eventually could be solved, and not a sort of "plot" by Apple to avoid giving away the crown jewels...

Could it be that the flag is removed for some reason during the streaming without actually modifying the digital audio content?

Perhaps this is a naive idea, and don't know if technically meaningful at all: I think there are apps that can capture system audio, so it would be nice if a "fair length" of audio from a supposedly lossless audio stream from Apple Music could be digitally captured and recorded as an audio file, and having that compared with a null-test against a file of the same music obtained from Qobuz or other source.

The idea is try to see if the audio bits of the stream are modified, besides the mere removal of a flag. Does this makes sense?

Regards,

Jorge