
To engage the feature, Apple Music users can turn on Lossless Audio through accessing Settings > Music > Audio Quality on their listening device, which will then present a range of different resolutions to suit their network connections status. This essentially allows listeners to listen to songs as they were created in the studio, with Lossless Audio retaining all the nuances and dynamics of the song’s original masters. m4a, subverting the digital compression typically encountered on other streaming services or when listening to mp3s.

Through utilising Apple’s Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) coding format, Apple Music’s Lossless Audio catalogue promises to preserve the integrity of the original audio file as a CD-quality.

Over 75 million songs on the streaming service will be available to Apple Music customers to listen to in Lossless, a file format revered by audiophiles due to its top-tier sound quality.
