So, streaming music from Apple Music to an Airplay 2 device such as the MuSo 2 seems to result in only lossy 256 AAC… bit of a bummer. Is this a bug Apple will likely fix, or is it a bandwidth thing and as such a “feature” to facilitate multi room audio?
Honestly can’t hear a difference between 256 AAC and hi-res via Tidal Connect, but still, something irks me about being told by the app music is playing lossless music while it’s being compressed.
How is it AirPlay 2 not lossless streaming by definition?
“AirPlay 2 currently supports streaming audio wirelessly at 16-bit/44.1 kHz in the ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec).”
That definition sounds like lossless