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[wklie (Peter Lie)]

@Michael_Grant

AP2 limitation on lossless is going to be fixed soon when support for lossless Apple Music is added to HomePods in a coming software update.

HomePod uses a proprietary Audio Handoff technology. That it will be updated to lossless does not necessarily imply all AirPlay2 receivers will get ALAC from Apple Music. We will need to see what happens then.

Apple Music High Res

To expand on my reasoning: I suspect the deliberate choice to use 256kbps instead of lossless delivery is a feature, not a bug, to enhance buffering for multi room playback, especially considering many consumers have really poor WiFi networks. If the company standpoint is that lossless superiority is not audible to the 98% majority, any means to reduce support calls about audio breaking up is advantageous. That actually makes perfect logical sense if one assumes quality degradation is inaudi…