I have purchased a few albums from the itunes store and am wondering, are they lossless? I understand that you need a subscription to apple music plus in order to stream lossless but are the songs that I purchased and downloaded lossless? Also, does it play back it lossless?

I have tons of albums that are the same track title and artist as an album available on iTunes however my live ones will say "Live" or a date/location in the album title which is evidently not strong enough a differentiator to not be matched and replaced for streaming purposes across your devices.

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You should have taken a backup of your itunes library (= the files on your Mac or PC) BEFORE subscribing to Apple Music. The risk is not to lose anything. The risk is that Apple Match silently replaces your tracks with the same tracks that already exist in Apple's music catalog. That mostly works (I assume) but the matching in Apple Match is so primitive that it will happily replace a live recording of a track (maybe a recording you did yourself) with a studio recording that happens to have the same name, date, performers ... Once replaced, your local file (in your iTunes library) will be gone. Hence: take a backup!

The main reason is the Apple Music versions are almost always better quality than my versions. The levels are even song-to-song and the encoding is lossless. Many of my tracks are ripped from scratched CDs so they skip. And the final reason is the cover art is consistent, whereas half of my album that matches could get different cover art.

I am digging deeper now and I too have many albums where half is "matched" and half is "uploaded." I'm even seeing this on studio albums. I am thinking this is becasue I have probably standardized song names for featured artists as well as the Artist tag to suit my own preferences. Do not know how I can change that as I would like to have those albums 'matched' that should be so I can listen to higher quality copies.

Much of my music collection is also lower bitrate encodings and I would like to have better quality PERSONAL tracks for those that are. Am I missing something about Apple Music with iCloud Music Library? Does it work like iTunes Match did for the "matched" tracks and enable you to replace them with DRM free high-quality AAC versions?

For those that are 'matched' I am under the impression that you will get a higher quality version on other devices such as iPhone. I thought those were the DRM protected copies and if you cancel they go away (leaving you only with your lower quality originals).

I have a feeling this is where end users are running into problems. They delete their original files to either save space on their Mac or PC and/or so they can get "upgraded quality tracks" at 256kbps AAC.

I will second you on this. As I stated previously, for several reasons I'm actually going a step further and removing my local copies of albums from my iCloud Library and replacing it with the Apple Music version. Yet when I go to my hard drive (I'm running Windows 10 with the latest iTunes) all of my original mp3s are there and in tact.

1.12. Repeated Submissions. Content will be hidden using the reason Repeated Submissions if multiple copies of the same content and/or audio files are submitted with a slightly different title and/or artist. Do not send duplicate versions of the same content (such as the same album with a rearranged track list, near-identical greatest hits albums, or compilation or holiday albums with similar or identical track lists).

3.13. DJ Mixes Version Information. DJ Mix albums must include a title version of "DJ Mix" in the album-level version information. Mixed tracks appearing on a DJ Mix must include the title version [Mixed] after all other version information.

4.3. Indian Genres. Indian music must have at least one Indian genre or Indian subgenre for the album (Primary or Secondary, as applicable). The language-specific genre must be Primary for Indian soundtrack albums.

4.4. Classical Genres. Use the Classical genre for all albums that feature Western classical music. This broadly includes music composed between approx. A.D. 800 and today within the Western art music tradition.

5.1. Accuracy. Albums, tracks, and music videos must be delivered with the release date of their original issue, digitally or physically, regardless of version or country or region of origin. For all albums released after the year 2000, deliver at the level of day, month, and year. For deep catalog albums released before the year 2000, deliver this metadata to the extent it is known whether it be to the day, month, or year.

9.7. Music Directors. All music directors must be listed. For soundtrack albums, music directors must be credited with both the Composer and Primary role at the album level. At the track level, music directors must be listed with the Composer role.

For Indian Classical albums, music directors must be listed with the Composer role on tracks. If the album contains selections of unknown authorship, such as folk songs, chants, or devotionals, use Anonymous or Traditional as the composer.

9.10. Classical Artist Roles. For classical albums, the main performers must be listed as Primary at the album and track level. Artist listings include all relevant artists and contributors to a given song or album. For Jugalbandi albums, all the artists must be listed as Primary at the album and track level. Composers must be in the Composer role only.

11.12. Classical Crossover Formatting. Track titles for Classical Crossover genre content can start with the selection, movement, or popular title of a work. Major work titles and catalog numbers must still be included but may be presented at the end of the title within parentheses. Only use this relaxed formatting on classical-crossover albums.

Music encoded as 256kbps AAC files first came to the iTunes Store in 2007 with the launch of Apple's iTunes Plus. That marked the debut of DRM-free music tracks encoded at a higher quality bitrate that Apple claims is virtually indistinguishable from the original recordings.

The Apple product is very good. If I want to listen to something critically, I'll hunt down a hi res flac or alac file, use a good quality cd or SACD or I'll use my turntable. On the other hand, for good quality, relatively inexpensive, every day listening, Apple's product is very good. I think that despite the numbers (256), Apple does some magical things within the ACC encoding.

Google Play Music stopped selling MP3s in late 2020 as the company moved to the streaming-only YouTube Music. All of the above services offer an excellent alternative to Google Play Music, and some such as Bandcamp offer higher-quality lossless for the same price. One feature that YouTube Music did carry over from Google Play Music is the music locker, which lets you upload your own music library.

If you're only interested in high-quality downloads -- and by this I specifically mean 24-bit hi-res -- the Qobuz download store is the cheapest. Like the Qobuz music streaming service, it caters for a wide variety of music genres, from pop to jazz to death metal to whatever you can think of. The site also offers sales on new releases including a recent Metallica promotion. If you're an ultra-keen audiophile you can sign up for the $180-a-year Sublime streaming package, which also gives you discounts up to 60% on Hi-Res downloads.

Spotify is better. There are software like Spotify music converter Mac from Audfree which can help you download music to your mp3 player at high speed. No Spotify Premium required and you can get the music files with original sound quality preserved.

With Spotify demonstrating contempt for anyone who values the quality of their sound, this is surely a massive opportunity for Apple Music. Lack of BluOs integration is the sole reason I and a bunch of others I know have not jumped onto the service. Here's to hoping it happens, b/c I'd take Apple over Spotify Hifi even if it did, eventually and begrudgingly, surface.

NEW: You can now search for Apple Music playlists, albums and stations with my new Apple Music Artwork Finder which includes uncompressed artwork and animated artwork where applicable.

I've included two links at the top of each piece of artwork; standard resolution and high resolution. The standard resolution will generally be 600x600px and is the size that is displayed inline. The high resolution can be anything; I've found instances of movie artwork at 1600x2400px and TV shows up to 2400x2400px. However, the high resolution does not always work, particularly for iBooks, Movies, and Albums (albums are now working thanks to a tip from John Leustek). It seems to depend on the country and studio involved but you generally need a special key to get that high res artwork and you can only get that key by purchasing something from iTunes (and then it only lasts a short while). With app icons, there is only one artwork link which will give you a 1024x1024px file; just click on the app icon.

Some movies weren't being found even though they could be viewed in iTunes. To fix this, copy the URL from iTunes and paste the numbers after 'id' into the 'Apple ID (Movie)' section. For example, if the iTunes URL is -potter-philosophers/id314918278 you would put 314918278 as the id (the country must be correct as well for this to work). As of March 2016, you can also do this for albums; just select 'Apple ID (Album)' from the dropdown list. 0852c4b9a8

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