Apple Music - will anything change?

[K12beano]

So - will it be as "game changing" as rumours and the hype which is now starting would suggest ?




My vote is that it will be good, interesting, but probably 50% hype. It's just that Apple will prove again that they cannot do anything "new" but what they do do will be a huge step forward

[K12beano]

Podie said:

Meh.

Yeah - I was/am a bit like that. But Spacial Audio (that I have tried only in AirPods Pro at the moment), and the Computational Audio as in HomePod Mini is quite a revelation in practice. And I am at least partly excited to see (hear) what else they can do......

[K12beano]

Here it is, folks.

Sounds like they're leapfrogging the competition on this one....

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/05/apple-music...

[K12beano]

Podie said:

Lossless on an iPhone with AirPods. It's a bit like feeding strawberries to pigs, isn't it?

Oink, oink.

[K12beano]

aparna said:

Don’t forget to turn on lossless on the Apple Music settings before deciding it’s great

^^This^^

It takes a few minutes to go through devices setting them up - and I cannot see people bothering anyway. For example Mrs Beano ("I know HOW to use a computer!!!") has no idea what she's listening to... and I've only 10 years experiences of getting to know Macs to have a real inkling of how to set up the thing, generally, to do things I want it to!!!


But, anyway.....

https://www.dolby.com/music/

Try it and see - "YMMV" has never been a truer statement!

(Marvin Gaye has never sounded as good to me, (shiny new M1 iMac) whether APPs or my old Senny HD25s without a hugely expensive set up and more room than I have - and record companies will be scrabbling to remix and refresh their back catalogues so I think we'll hear things better than ever without out-of-reach-audiophile-spending)