If you have a Windows PC, however, you miss out on the excellent audio quality Apple Music has to offer ., i Tunes, the only official Apple Music app on Windows, does not support lossless audio. You can still get Apple Music lossless on Windows 11.
One source proposed You’re lucky you get anything. I don’t understand how Apple can sell hardware like i, phones/i Pads and services like Apple Music, claim them to be “Windows Compatible” and then provide such a shoddy experience., i Tunes for Windows has been a MESS for a long time, let alone the fact it doesn’t support Lossless yet.
How do I listen to Apple Music lossless on Windows?
You can listen to lossless audio using the latest Apple Music app on an i, phone, i Pad, Mac, or Apple TV . It’s disappointing that you can’t even use i. Tunes on Windows to stream Apple Music Lossless, even though I believe i. Tunes does support the codec itself (for example when importing a CD).
This of course begs the query “How to play Apple Lossless files on Windows 10?”
So one way to play Apple Lossless files in Windows 10 will be via i. Tunes, however a lot of people would like to use Windows Media Player and hence Windows Media Center to play these files also. This is currently possible with Windows 8.1 and earlier by installing a Direct, and show filter.
You can listen to Apple Lossless content that you create in i, and tunes now. Given that no reference to Windows is made at all in the linked document my guess would be that Windows may not get access to Apple Music content in lossless format, but only time will tell.
Does Apple Music use lossless audio compression?
Apple has developed its own lossless audio compression technology called Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC). In addition to AAC, the entire Apple Music catalog is now also encoded using ALAC in resolutions ranging from 16-bit/44.1 k. Hz (CD Quality) up to 24-bit/192 k, and hz.