![]() That means double blind tests that are volume matched, etc. I don't know about the rate of 128 kbps specifically for Opus, but in general, all the steaming services are about of equal sound quality, at least if they let you select bitrate.Īnyone saying "this service sounds better than that one" needs to put forth actual test results for that claim to have any weight. One would think people would know what a transparency is in Ars of all places. You can't tell the difference between lossless audio and 128+ kbps Opus as used on YT proper either. It's 256 kbps AAC, can you actually (double blinded) tell the difference between that and anything else? Sound quality seems fine, random YouTube videos excepted. If you download something from iTunes that isn't purchased or part of iTunes Match, then yeah, it'll be encrypted. And/Or old music that was never reformatted into m4a. M4p format only applies to songs you downloaded for offline listening that you didn't own yet. ![]() Apple can be great - I'm into the iPhone / macOS system but half the time they go into Overreach Mode when they decide to do it Their Way or the Highway. But Apple Music is off the table for me for this reason alone. I think it was documented somewhere in a file cabinet but it certainly wasn't clear that this was a thing.įortunately, this wasn't my first rodeo and I just pulled out a backup. Now, they did increase the bit rate from 238 kbs to 256 but you have to be logged in to your Apple account to use the files. m4a files (from iTunes and rips) with DRM protected. They might have fixed this, but when I tried out Apple Music, it when in an 'improved' a whole raft of. They were the first to get rid of it.Īnd for some weird reason, they brought them back. Backups can be useful, but Apple Music - not so much. Yeah, I *especially* like that Apple Music *replaces* your. If you have a lot of music that isn't available on Spotify/iTunes which you like to listen to - its a huge advantage that you don't need to store copies on each device. The big advantage for Apple Music really is the personal music integration/upload - which allows incorporating artists and music that isn't published on major music platforms. Spotify even allows playback to be switched from an iPhone onto a 'smart speaker' via the UI on the PC/Mac. iPhone) to handle the actual playback and all the power drain that entails, wheras Spotify compatible devices will do that themselves, allowing the previous device to be switched off entirely if so desired. Similarily, Apple Music playback on external speakers still requires the host device (i.e. Still on the Apple integration point, its somewhat disingenous considering a Mac cannot control the playback of an iPhone when using Apple Music, but an Xbox can control the playback of an Apple Watch when using Spotify. If you are solely using Apple Devices, the above at least aren't problems. ITunes is rather notorious for not integrating correctly with media keys on Windows (and the only media app I know of that doesn't). Claiming that Apple Music works on anything but Apple devices is a stretch - particularly when you then disregard that the Apple Music webplayer has some longstanding power-virus issues (its still to date the only webapp I've ever seen use over 40% of the GPU power of a GTX 1080).
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