Apple Music challenges Spotify, works in HD streaming

Apple ready to launch the Hd mode for the Music platform, thus anticipating Spotify which is planning the function by 2021. This was reported by the MacRumors site, specialized on the American giant.

In this way, you can listen to a song via Bluetooth, with a pair of compatible headphones or earphones, with the quality of a CD.

Currently, Apple Music streams in Aac files at 256 Kbps, the standard already used by competitors such as Tidal and Spotify.

And in fact, the latter platform announced the arrival, by the end of the year, of the Hi-Fi service, for a so-called 'lossless' audio, without loss of quality.

For MacRumors, the Apple Music Hd trials are within the development code of iOS 14.6, the iPhone operating system update that is expected to be released in the coming weeks. The site found references to options such as "lossless audio", "high quality stereo streaming" and "HiFi" in the Apple Music app. Both AirPods Pro and AirPods Max should be supported by the service, while the first and second generation AirPods would remain excluded.

One doubt is inherent in the audio codec format that Apple will choose for streaming. It could be a proprietary format or, alternatively, Qualcomm's AptX Adaptive or Sony's LDAC. Before MacRumors, the Hits Daily Double site had speculated about the launch of Music Hd. According to the portal, HD will have a subscription fee of 9.99 euros per month, less than the 14.99 euros requested by Amazon for Music Hd, launched last September and which hosts both songs in CD and Ultra HD quality, with a frequency of 192 kHz sampling.