Apple Music officially announced that it is bringing lossless music quality options to its entire catalog at no extra cost, starting in June. Apple says lossless quality will be available for more than 75 million tracks in the Apple Music library.
It is also launching support for Spatial Audio music with songs authored in Dolby Atmos. Users will be able to listen to select albums with an immersive 3D sound-space on AirPods, AirPods Pro, AirPods Max and Beats headphones with a H1 or W1 chip. Apple says thousands of Dolby Atmos songs will go live in June.
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I'm not excited about getting lossless music. Whatever audio I am getting out of Apple Music sounds good enough for my old ears with small earpods.
Can all these app makers spent more time making it easier or better for me to discover music or podcasts or audiobooks or whatever on my little iPhone too?
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