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.

  • antlestxp@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I see 16/44 when I use airplay through roon. That should technically be lossless but it sounds not great on my setup. Really odd, it may have something to do with roon but it sounds almost muffled. If I use upnp the same files sound fine.

    • HHinnerk@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Muffled sound is the best description of airplay (2). My streaming amplifier got airplay as well as tidal connect. The same songs sounds much better using tidal connect then airplay.

      And the hickups of the stream annoyed me a lot.

      I use airplay for streaming spoken audio (radio features aka podcast) frommy phone or the sound of YouTube videos from my notebook.