Apple Music adds support for lossless format and surround sound

Service Apple Music it doesn’t have as many users on the Android platform as Spotify, but the American company is still trying to entice them with new features. The latest are according to the portal XDA-developers lossless format and surround sound support.

Songs with surround sound support will be marked with the Dolby Atmos badge in the library

Mentions of the preparation of the surround sound function were revealed in May in the APK file of the Apple Music application. It has now been made available to Apple Music users who are participating in the beta program. If you want to join it, just register for beta testing in the Google Play store and then you will receive the latest beta version of the application.

It gives you access to the surround sound function on compatible devices with thousands of Dolby Atmos-enabled songs, which will be available as soon as they start up. A special playlist should also be created for them in the application. You can identify supported songs by the “Dolby Atmos” badge that appears directly above the playlist on the album page.

You must activate the lossless format in the application settings

You can also search for songs in a lossless format that provides clear sound at the level of LPs. However, you must first activate the Lossless Audio function in the application settings in the Audio Quality section. You will have a total of four types of audio formats to choose from:

• High performance: AAC format with data saving (for mobile connection only)
• High quality: AAC format at 256 kbps
• Lossless: ALAC format with up to 24-bit audio at 48 kHz
• High quality lossless: ALAC with 24-bit sound at 129 kHz

Along with these features, the upgrade to beta version 3.6 should also bring improvements to the song library and Automatic Crossfade. This allows for a smooth transition between tracks, with the next track starting to play while the previous track is still muted.