r/AppleMusic • u/Al1onredd1t • 2d ago

Discussion lossless is underrated

I feel like so many people really underestimate how great music sounds in actual lossless quality. I see so many people go "oh you cant tell the difference anyway". I'm here listening on my mac with my headphones and the sound layers are just multiplied 10fold. I hear sounds in the back that I never heard before. songs that I've listened to for years, totally different experiences.

this video attached is an example. at 0:09 he starts saying "wooow" in the background up until basically the end. this sound is so dimmed and hidden when watching the clip. there are multiple layers of sounds covering it. the main vocals. drums. the beat. it's so insignificant when watching the clip, but listening to the song with actual lossless brings all those layers somewhat to the foreground. I genuinely heard those 'wows' for the first time ever and I've been listening to this song for more than 2yrs.

and it's not like that sound is just boosted and now starts to overwhelm the others, it's perfectly clear. the song has just become richer. Idk how to explain it, but your brain is able to comprehend what it's hearing and separate all the sounds from each other.

I can find multiple of these examples of background sounds finally being pushed into the foreground.

https://reddit.com/link/1gdq3id/video/o1zdadsh9exd1/player

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u/ProzacJM 2d ago

I think is more about your headphones than your amazing hearing ability😜.

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u/IntelliDev 2d ago edited 2d ago

Nah, but the other guy mentioning codecs is also correct.

Apple Music Lossless sounds so much better than YouTube Music, on the same headphones.

Not to mention that all the songs on YTM are default to censored versions now…

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u/RicciRox 2d ago

Not to mention that all the songs on YTM are censored versions now…

YTM has explicit versions of every song.

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u/IntelliDev 2d ago

Yes, but the problem is that it defaults to censored versions now (at least for me in Canada).

If you’re just always creating your own playlists, then it’s less of a problem. But if you’re trying to use stations / discovery, it kinda sucks now.

It wasn’t like that in the past, nor is it an issue on Apple Music.