The idea for Garageband is really intriguing, and one that I hadn’t considered. The article linked also speculates about usage cases around Apple Fitness.
Probably best not to jump the gun and assume they’ll be destroying all of our favorites, for now.
Yes, waiting for the classical app a lot too! 
Got the first sound from it 
Digi2 Pro Tos/Coax Output Just one optical cable
Just a clean digital stream, bitperfect 44.1/16 ALAC via i2s-Tos straight into the DAC. No USB at all in the chain Only one optical cable And yes, it streams Atmos too, if wanted 
All together (w/o DAC…) ca. 120 USD. Will check SQ tonight by just listening 
Just got the goose bumps 
Apple Music is set (Using Airplay 
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+++Running Shairport-Sync on Ubuntu Server and upsampling Airplay to 176 with SoX. Just for fun. Next step get the little PI sweating with SoX 
Great album.
Though I get the same problem with this album as I do many others. Which is that whilst the album advertises 24/192 (when you click on the lossless logo), when you set it playing and click on the logo again (for the track playing), it says 24/96. That is using AM>iPad mini 6>CCK>USB>RME ADI-DAC 2FS.
I know this set up can deliver 24/192 because for some tracks it does. But for this, and many others, I don’t get the advertised resolution (eg 24/48 advertised for album, plays as 24/44.1, or 16/44.1, or 16/48 etc etc).
Does anybody else observe this behaviour? Can it be explained and fixed?
Where does it advertise this for this album specifically?
When you press on the album’s hi-res logo (not track) you just get a generic message about hi-res albums in general, about “up to 24-bit/192 kHz”. That message isn’t specific to this album.
No issue that I can see. Nothing to be fixed.
Btw the hi-res version is not the ‘legacy’ one posted above.
All those rates are ‘lossless’ not ‘hi-res lossless’ per Apple’s definition, so you won’t see the same message as the ‘hi-res lossless’ Piano Man album.
But the advertised resolution appears album specific. Some say available at 16/44.1, some at 24/48, some at 24/96 etc etc. I get this because maybe the masters are only available at a given resolution.
I also take ‘up to’ to mean that it depends on the capabilities of your equipment. So if I’m playing an album advertised as ‘up to’ 24/96 via Airplay I know it’s going to downsample to 16/44.1.
But, if I’m playing a hi-res (24/96 say) album, through a set-up that can support 24/192, why does the ‘now playing’ lossless logo suddenly state 16/48, for example? Settings are set to hi-res for streaming by the way, and we are talking about tracks that have not already been downloaded at lower res.
Noted but can you share where this is advertised in Apple Music? For this album?
A screenshot so we see what you see?
Which album does this, specifically? To make it easier to try to replicate…
I use Apple Music hi-res lossless every day and never seen any of the issues you are saying.
iPad as source, via cables to USB DAC (RME ADI-2)
If you can please share screenshots it will help to try to reproduce.
Some examples :-
Pressing the lossless icon on this Stevie Wonder album says up to 24/192. If you then play the first track (or any track) and press the lossless icon for the track it displays 24/96 (as the DAC confirms). Other screen shots are the same story.
Yes but it is exactly as I explained above. That is just a generic message explaining what hi-res lossless is. That message is not album specific…
And this damien rice one - that is just a generic message explaining what lossless is. Nothing album specific there.
Remember Apple calls both 44.1k and 48k lossless…
Same as my replies to you while you were posting these - see above.
I think you are confusing generic messages with album specific sample rate info.
So why does the generic message differ depending on the album? Why not just one generic message that says you may get 24/192?
I answered this above also, perhaps while you were typing.
There is one generic message for lossless and one for hi-res lossless.
See my earlier posts.
It wouldn’t make sense for 1 generic message when Apple differentiate lossless and hi-res lossless…
You might be thinking 48kHz is hi-res lossless? In Apple’s world, it isn’t.
If nothing was lost one can’t help but wonder what it is that hi-res adds? 
Regardless of name and putting aside audibility, it’s nice to have access to lesser molested digital files 
It makes me feel warmer and fuzzier inside 
Doh. The penny just dropped. This has been bugging me for weeks and I have posted on a number of forums and nobody has shown an interest - perhaps they just rolled their eyes.
So thank you @dabassgoesboomboom for taking the time to explain (and remind me how stupid I can be) 
