I pay for apple music, but all the linux clients seem to just be webapps which support 256AAC at most. Any way to maybe automatically download my library as flac and keep it locally (legal or not idc)

cant move services as every other service sucks (yes i have tried them all (tidal, spotify, qobuzz, deezer)

thank you all

  • @zenharbinger
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    29 days ago

    Wine/bottles? I do use qobuz in a bottle and get hd audio out to my dac.

    • thejevans
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      79 days ago

      I don’t think the Apple Music Windows app does lossless or hi-res either

      • @zenharbinger
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        129 days ago

        Man, it sounds like if HD is your requirement, Apple really might not be the best.

        Short of an Android emulator, it sounds like they don’t want it out of their ecosystem.

        • thejevans
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          29 days ago

          That is true. Waydroid might work. No idea if you can get lossless through that.

        • thejevans
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          19 days ago

          If it does now, that might be an option. It didn’t when I got rid of Apple music.

    • @[email protected]
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      9 days ago

      the qobuz webapp is hi-res too, I just use it in Firefox and my dac reports the same bit/sample rate that qobuz does. AFAIK there’s no compression there though I haven’t extensively verified that, only that the end result is 24bit/192kHz if that’s what qobuz says is playing.

      EDIT: Also, qobuz is nice because there’s very few things you can click on in the web interface which cause the music to stop playing. I really appreciate that feature… looking at you bandcamp…

      • @zenharbinger
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        19 days ago

        I’m too likely to close a web browser. plus I keep getting logged out. But I did notice that too.