Everybody wants to hear their favorite songs in the best resolution as they want to have their photos taken in the highest possible resolution.
One of the biggest names in music streaming services is Apple Music and iTunes. The question is if Apple would be able to stream music in high resolution to give their listeners the best music experience. Apple music currently is streaming music at 256kbps, which is far from the CD quality which is 44.1kHz/16-bit.
According to Mashable, the latest rumor about the tech giant is that it is currently working on high-resolution music streaming that could have a quality up to 96kHz/24-bit. The rumor came out of the report from Japanese Apple blog Macotara, which is known for a number of bull’s eye, as well as, knock out of its prediction of Apple news.
If Apple would go ahead with this high-resolution audios, it would have to work on the re-encoding of the 30 million and counting songs for Apple Music. And that is no joke, at all.
Kirk McElhearn wrote his opinion on his blog about the high-resolution music streaming, “That device only handles audio at 16 bits and up to 48 KHz. So if Apple were planning to start dealing in high-resolution audio (generally considered to have a bit depth of 24 bits, and sample rates higher than 48 KHz), you’d have thought this device would be able to handle such audio."
"I wouldn’t be surprised if Apple eventually does bring high-resolution audio to the iTunes Store and to Apple Music, but the only way they can do this is if the data doesn’t count against users’ mobile data caps (or static caps too, for those people who don’t have unlimited internet access),” he added.
While according to The Verge, Apple may be positioning Lightning connector as its high-resolution audio port for the future.
"It allows for headphones with integrated digital-to-analog converters and amplifiers — as we've seen from the Philips Fidelio M2L and Audeze EL-8 Titanium — and is something that Apple has long been rumored to be considering,”Vlad Savov wrote on The Verge.
What do you think about the high-resolution audio that is speculated as next Apple move in 2016?
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