Preserving HD music bit depth and sample rates with iCloud Music Library

If I select iCloud Music Library and I have HD music up to say 24 Bits purchased from HD Tracks. Will apple preserve those bit depths? and higher sample rates.

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Windows, Windows 10

Posted on Feb 6, 2025 07:39 AM

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turingtest2

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Feb 8, 2025 06:47 AM in response to cfogarty1964

Locally the tracks should remain unchanged, but if they are matched or uploaded to the cloud then any other library or device that connects to your iCloud library may get 256K AAC versions. Whether or not uploaded files get transcoded is somewhat of a lottery.

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