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Cider

Prepare for a fresh, reimagined experience with Cider – your favorite Apple Music client! · By Cider Collective

Is possible to get the Lossless quality?

A topic by verifiedfemboy created Oct 13, 2024 Views: 2,497 Replies: 2
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I love this App is so smooth on Archlinux, but the lossless audio quality is missing.

Is possible to enable it?

Cheers

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Cider Dev here, In this world, there are 3 major systems for decrypting copyright protected content (referred to as a CDM or Content Decryption Module) - WideVine by Google - available on all platforms - PlayReady by Microsoft - Windows & X-Box only - FairPlay by Apple - Apple devices only* When the application goes to apple services and requests the ways to play it, it returns the AAC playback options for all 3, however the only lossless sources are FairPlay, meaning that devices without FairPlay (i.e. non-Apple devices) will be unable to decrypt the audio, meaning no lossless playback. Although we do have the Cider Audio Lab which uses the way AAC is encoded to make it sound a lot better. It's not lossless but it is WAY closer than normal AAC is. Unless you have a pair of US$10k headphones with a US$10k DAC or something, you most likely will not be able to tell the difference...
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/AppleMusic/comments/11c0ibd/comment/jqyf9b0/

>meaning that devices without FairPlay (i.e. non-Apple devices) will be unable to decrypt the audio, meaning no lossless playback.

Honest question, if this would be true, how i can listen to lossless audio on my android phone? Yes, it resamples it to 48khz but the option is there.