At the end of February Spotify announced that HiFi sound (high fidelity) would soon come to its service as part of a new payment plan superior to the existing one, in the style of Tidal O Amazon Music HD. Already then we speculated with the possibility that Apple made a similar move incorporating such an option to Apple Music. Well, the day is close to arrive: as we have been able to know in Applesfera thanks to sources in the recording industry who prefer to remain anonymous for obvious reasons, Apple Music will release a HiFi option soon, something in turn anticipated by a find in the iOS 14.6 beta code with certain internal references.
In the days when Applesfera was working on this information and while we tried to find a second independent source to confirm it, the portal specialized in the American music industry Hits Daily Double published this news adding something that we did not know: according to them, it will maintain the same price of 9.99 euros or dollars and will not be a step to a higher plan. There are other details not published yet that we have been able to confirm..
According to the sources of Applesfera, is about a Dolby system with immersive audio to offer a 360-degree sound experience. Warner Music, Universal and Sony Music, the three major record companies in the industry, are working on it so that a very high percentage of the catalog of songs on Apple Music have this option. In fact the credits for these songs, adapted to immersive sound, will feature the sound engineers who have remastered them in recent months.
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April 15 as a marked date and an adaptive quality system
The original release was scheduled for record companies on April 15, although it did not occur, neither on that date nor at the April 20 event where Apple announced the AirTags or the iMac with Apple Silicon among other releases. Our sources point out that it is possible that this was not the date on which Apple had planned the launch, but that it was the deadline set for record companies to be able to have their service ready on the date that they really had in mind. The next big Apple event will be WWDC 2021, which will begin on June 7, so there we could see news in this regard, although it can also be part of a later launch.
In addition to this release, we also know that Apple to launch an adaptive quality system for Apple Music. In other words, the quality of the music will vary depending on the bandwidth that the user has at all times, being able to offer a lower quality in moments of little 3G coverage, for example; and automatically of superior quality when enjoying a strong signal in 5G. Currently it is only possible to choose a fixed maximum quality for each type of connection, mobile or Wi-Fi.
Since Applesfera We have contacted Apple, which declined to comment on this matter. A Sony Music spokesperson told us that “from Apple Music, there is no official statement in this regard, and it is surely a release that they communicate in a surprise manner”, without explicitly denying or confirming this release. Warner Music and Universal did not respond to our request at the time of publishing this article.
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