AirPods will play high-fidelity music from Apple Music with update, says informant

A Apple may be working on an update that will fix the AirPods' high-fidelity streaming issue. The company has now made lossless audio available through Apple Music just yesterday for all devices, but the high-quality format strangely didn't make it to headphones.

According to the informant Jon prosser, from Apple Insider reports that the company will address the AirPods issue with a new audio playback format specific to its devices. AirPods models use the AAC compression format to play music on devices via Bluetooth — a connection type that is too unstable to play ALACs or FLACs for lossless audio.

Apparently, the tactic is the same as the Apple took to deal with AirTag and Find My, creating compatibility with third-party formats and then launching its own. It remains to be seen how the AirPods update will play back high-fidelity audio.

Bluetooth is too unstable to play lossless

To get around the problem of lossless playback, the Apple needs to deal with the Bluetooth problem. The connection can reach speeds of up to 2.000 kbps under ideal conditions, but it cannot use all this power in everyday life due to numerous environmental interferences. To reproduce high-fidelity audio, the device needs to play tracks at 16-bit/44,1 kHz — the so-called “CD quality,” requiring more bandwidth.

While the AirPods update may finally bring high-fidelity audio to your portable devices, it’s important to ask whether all this effort is really worth it. After all, what’s the point of having the ability to play lossless audio if the listener may not even be able to hear it? notice the difference?

Through which channels you reach those people, classic and out of the box. AppleTrack e AppleInsider

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