[Christo22]

Question tonight.
Will the BDP3 be able to stream or get access to APPLE MUSIC now that Apple is going HI RES full steam…
I plan on ditching TIDAL as soon as it’s ON.
It’s a game changer…

[James Tanner]

Hi

It will depend on if Apple allows 3rd party access.

james

[unincognito]

We will be initially supporting this by way of Shairport-Sync; an Airplay compatible alternative that supports lossless cd quality.  The feature has been present in our digital player products for many years.  We are tracking this development and keeping an eye on how Apple intends to allow there service to be used by third parties like ourselves and our assumption is Apple will increase the resolution support of Airplay at this time as the protocol is capable of handling any PCM format.  Until information is released from Apple stating otherwise we are under the assumption this will be a fairly seamless transition assuming those that want Apple Music also have an Apple device which we assume anyone who wants Apple Music will have an Apple device.



Chris

[jbuzas]

Will this increase the cost of Bryston products, i.e. does Bryston have to pay Apple to decode Apple's proprietary formats?   That's what I don't like about Apple--how is their format better than the open source FLAC format for hi-res?  I'm pretty sure the answer is: it's not better.

[Christo22]

Bryston already plays AAC.
On a hard drive etc.
What could be cool is to get the same kind of interface as Tidal within ManicMoose.

[dB Cooper]

Will this increase the cost of Bryston products, i.e. does Bryston have to pay Apple to decode Apple's proprietary formats?   That's what I don't like about Apple--how is their format better than the open source FLAC format for hi-res?  I'm pretty sure the answer is: it's not better.

AAC is not an Apple proprietary format. It was developed by Fraunhofer (who invented mp3) as the next-gen replacement for mp3 but never saw wide adoption. Apple does not own the codec.

As for Apple Lossless, it uses the  same 'container' but different compression parameters that support fully lossless decompression. Apple released the source code in 2011, so it isnt 'proprietary'. It is freely usable by anyone.

Agree that it is no better. It is also no worse. I too wish they had just gone with the ubiquitous FLAC though.

[jbuzas]

Thanks for the reply.  That's interesting information.  I'm glad to know I am not paying for an Apple proprietary format!

[dB Cooper]

Question tonight.
Will the BDP3 be able to stream or get access to APPLE MUSIC now that Apple is going HI RES full steam…
I plan on ditching TIDAL as soon as it’s ON.

I ditched Tidal for Qobuz, partly because of lower cost but also Tidal's poor search (just one example, if you want to play Simon & Garfunkel, you have to enter exactly that- it returns 'No Results' if you search for 'Simon and Garfunkel'. Thats lame. Also the MQA BS.

Tidal is going to have a hard time justifying charging double Apple's cost.