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Is there a way to get lossless music playback on macOS?

I noticed that while playing back the same tracks via MusicKit on different OSes I get different results regarding the audio files being streamed.

Playing back a lossless file with 24Bit 48kHz and watching the Console for RemotePlayerService I get:

  1. on iPadOS: Lossless; groupID: audio-alac-stereo-48000-24; bitDepth: 24-bit; sampleRate: 48khz; codec: alac; channels: 2; layout: Stereo;

  2. on macOS: Creating AudioQueue with format:'paac', framesPerPacket:1024, sampleRate:44100

While the iPad looks perfect, the Mac does not. Is there a way to fix this issue on macOS.

BTW: I switched the Audio-Midi Settings before, after and while the macOS App was lunched. I also switched to different output devices. I wasn't able to change the bad audio-output on the mac. I tested this under Sequoia 15.5 and Tahoe beta 1, Xcode 16.4 and 26 beta 1.

The AudioVariants of the Album/Tracks are .dolbyAtmos, .lossless, .lossyStereo Apple Music displays Lossless 24 Bit/48 kHz ALAC when clicking on the playercontroll icon on macOS

I hope there are only some missing or misconfigured properties to get macOS up to par.

Thanks :-)

Is there a way to get lossless music playback on macOS?
 
 
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