Play lossless audio in Music on Mac

If you subscribe to Apple Music, you can play and download music encoded using the Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC), which makes files smaller while preserving all of the original data in the file. In Apple Music, lossless music is available in two formats:

  • Lossless: Up to 24-bit, 48 kHz

  • Hi-Res Lossless: Up to 24-bit, 192 kHz

Albums and songs available in lossless have the Lossless icon next to them. If a track is playing in lossless, the icon also appears in the playback controls.

Note: Apple Music and lossless aren’t available in all countries or regions. See the Apple Support article Availability of Apple Media Services.

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Choose lossless audio quality settings

  1. Go to the Music app on your Mac.

  2. Choose Music > Settings, click Playback, then do any of the following:

    • Turn on lossless audio: Select the “Lossless audio” checkbox. (You can see the Lossless icon for music whenever it’s playing.)

    • Select lossless audio quality when streaming songs: Click the Streaming pop-up menu and choose an option.

    • Select lossless audio quality when downloading songs: Click the Download pop-up menu and choose an option.

Change the lossless audio quality for a song

  1. Go to the Music app on your Mac.

  2. Stream a song from Apple Music.

    Note: A song needs to be playing before you can change its audio quality.

  3. Click the Lossless button in the playback controls, then click Audio Quality Settings to change the lossless audio quality settings.

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