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The Web-based version of Apple Music has officially launched

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21 pointsrbanffy8 comments

I keep hoping that Apple will come around to making their catalog available losslessly. I don’t need or want “HD” audio. I just want CD quality audio. I can’t pick out artifacts in AAC 256 that some people claim to. But on the other hand, I (and this is unscientific) find that my ears get tired listening to compressed audio vs uncompressed streams.

Tidal and now Amazon offer lossless steaming, but I personally prefer the integration and UI of Apple Music with our various iDevices. I believe it also is still possible (though a little janky in the UI) to stream your own tracks back to yourself for when Apple Music is missing obscure recordings.

I keep saying it, but the perfect music service is obvious and nonexistent currently:

1. Good catalog of music

2. Lossless option (don’t believe it matters? Fine. Charge people who insist on it for the feature. I pay $25/month for a family Tidal subscription. You can think I’m a sucker.)

3. Let me add my own recordings with metadata and stream my unified catalog back to me in the same UI.

It’d probably require renegotiating all their licenses with the RIAA and such. Granted, they did it before with 128 to 256 kbps (and removing DRM at the same time) quality. So, I’m sure they could, but the thing is most people don’t care.

I would also be willing to pay more for higher quality audio.

Apple takes so long to add cross-platform support despite these services making money with more potential to do so with cross-platform. icloud.com is unusable. Keychain is available only on Mac and iPhone and restricted to Safari.

I understand they are trying to lock-in users to their platform / devices but there would be more users if cross-platform versions are available making more money for them eventually.

It's not like consumers are buying a Mac or iPhone because Apple Music experience is better, or iCloud experience is better.

The entire idea behind keychain is its only used on trusted hardware. How do you propose that Apple verifies hardware that it doesn’t control?

Apple Music has been available on Android since basically day one and now it’s available on Amazon devices. AppleTV and AirPlay are being supported on third party hardware.

Have you used Spotify on Amazon echos? A travesty. Every song I requested was a bad cover or obscure version.

We had problems getting them to play Beatle songs and Frozen sound track! Repeatedly.

We switched back to Apple Music, and the voice commands worked fine.

So clearly Apple Music integration was far superior to Spotify at least with Amazon.

I read others had this problem, any idea what it was?

Almost identical to the “native” app with some added responsiveness, the macOS version being a souped up Ember application for the past five years has really paid off here.

Actually they are taking advantage of WebAssembly and ported some of the original C++ and Objective-C code to it.

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