Earbones
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No mention of Lossless at the announcement, which means barring a miracle, it won't happen.
Apple owns ALAC for God's sake. There is no reason on earth they couldn't have made lossless streaming available. What, so most people don't care about music quality, and don't want the data eaten up by lossless? Fine. Put a streaming quality toggle on it, like Spotify.
And while I get that most people would be flipping that toggle to off... It's not like audiophiles represent some tiny niche market of freaks, from which no profit can be drawn. We're not dressing up in furry outfits, or grown men who are really into My Little Pony (Google it).
Audiophiles represent a multi-billion dollar industry. PONO player was the third most funded kickstarter project ever. Audiophiles aren't the majority of listeners, but we're a damn big fish. If Apple Music is going to ignore that, when they could more easily implement lossless streaming than any of their competitors, then they're stupid, period.
I spend $30 a month on music. $20 on Tidal for my headfi rigs, and $10 on Spotify because that's what's available on Roku. Apple Music with lossless streaming would have saved me $20 a month. Damn.
Vent over.
Apple owns ALAC for God's sake. There is no reason on earth they couldn't have made lossless streaming available. What, so most people don't care about music quality, and don't want the data eaten up by lossless? Fine. Put a streaming quality toggle on it, like Spotify.
And while I get that most people would be flipping that toggle to off... It's not like audiophiles represent some tiny niche market of freaks, from which no profit can be drawn. We're not dressing up in furry outfits, or grown men who are really into My Little Pony (Google it).
Audiophiles represent a multi-billion dollar industry. PONO player was the third most funded kickstarter project ever. Audiophiles aren't the majority of listeners, but we're a damn big fish. If Apple Music is going to ignore that, when they could more easily implement lossless streaming than any of their competitors, then they're stupid, period.
I spend $30 a month on music. $20 on Tidal for my headfi rigs, and $10 on Spotify because that's what's available on Roku. Apple Music with lossless streaming would have saved me $20 a month. Damn.
Vent over.