Lossless audio on Mac

You may be confusing two different things.

The upcoming Apple Music subscription service addition

to make available lossless versions of songs available

in their catalog may indeed have some option setting

to stream or download lossless versions of a song.

However, if you have ripped CDs or otherwise recorded

audio in a lossless format that you have on your Mac,

you will still just play them as usual.

hcsitas wrote:

From the same article https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212183

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/ab898a6b-cf62-4029-88b9-dce97a4633ee

And as noted in your post in big letters it say "Apple Music"

not the Music app. I hope the OP gets the point.

ParryDemetriou wrote:

This setting is explained in an Apple support article titled "About lossless audio in Apple Music" dated 26/05/2021

As I said above, that is referring to the Apple Music subscription service,

though they are not making it very obvious which offers both AAC

lossy and ALAC lossless.

Again, if you already have your own lossless rips of CDs, Music will

play whatever lossless format it is, assuming it is supported.

Again to clarify further, Apple Music is a subscription service.

Music is the app to curate, organize, and play music. The two

are not the same.

From the same article https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212183

Your information is incorrect, no such setting exists. Just play it.

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