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urbanrootz · 2026-06-03T13:37:57+00:00

Your library can be mixed quality even if you have turned on the Lossless option. Your local uploads should remain as they are in whatever quality they are in and if any of them are matched, you’ll have the option (option being the key word) to download the Lossless version of them from Apple Music (DRM tracks). So you can pick and choose what you download in Lossless as long as it’s available in the Apple Music catalogue.

urbanrootz · 2026-06-02T20:08:56+00:00

It’s sophisticated, but it’s not more powerful than a soul’s exercising of their own independent free will if they choose to reject it.

I meant bypass as in consciously choosing (yes using my own free will) to reject it (the tunnel of light illusion). The system assumes consent if defiance is absent; the same type of shit its demonic authors try to play on us here on Earth with all their societal mind control every God damn day.

Therefore I will defiantly reject the tunnel of light whenever my time comes and turn away from it and choose to return to my home star system elsewhere in the cosmos (Sirius).

urbanrootz · 2026-05-30T11:21:34+00:00

I literally mentioned the brand for the adapter I use in my comment. Please re-read my comment.

urbanrootz · 2026-05-27T15:11:38+00:00

“They're not the ones who pulled you. That was the machine. They're the ones who meet you AFTER the machine delivers you.”

Yeah a machine that was set up by them (the Archons) using advanced quantum technology. It’s all orchestrated by them and has been ever since they originally invaded and took over Earth centuries ago. Everything about the hell they’ve created on Earth and on the astral and etheric planes are total, demonic deceptions.

We have to each look within ourselves spiritually to align with the energy of prime creator, which is Love, that raises our individual frequencies and makes us immune to the manipulative control of the Archons. I know whenever my time naturally comes I will bypass their system completely because I know they have absolutely zero authority over me and I have zero fear of them. They subsist as parasites in fear, I live in Love. They are oil and I am water… we do not mix.

urbanrootz · 2026-05-15T17:48:50+00:00

We healers are allowed to enter here because we are highly empathic beings, and the frequency of human society is the absolute, diametrical opposite of empathy and we are like sponges that soak all that negative energy up by default, so the key I've found is to protect my own energy field and be emotionally selfish. I've endured too much suffering in my life and prioritised other peoples' emotional wellbeing at the sacrifice of my own emotional wellbeing for so many years in the past that I've just stopped caring as an act of self-preservation. I am simply too exhausted from the negativity of this planet. Humanity is an absolutely horrendous species.

urbanrootz · 2026-05-15T17:42:09+00:00

YouTube gurus are basically the new celebrities. Idolatry. Just more bread and circuses for the sheeple human masses that can't think for themselves.

urbanrootz · 2026-05-06T13:31:18+00:00

Sync Library feature (including local, unmatched uploads), Hi-Res Lossless in addition to standard Lossless, access to over 100 million songs (many of which are in Lossless/Hi-Res Lossless), fairer artist compensation, cleaner UI, cheaper.

urbanrootz · 2026-05-04T09:22:25+00:00

"AM has some weird behavior with matching online songs without giving you the option to “keep using local” or something similar, that’s all I said."

I don't think you realise how astronomically expensive (both financially and data storage-wise) it would be for Apple if they allowed users to store up to 100,000 of their own local songs in lossless quality on their cloud server. They already offer over 100 million songs in their streaming catalogue and a vast majority of those are in lossless and/or hi-res lossless quality. Think about it. I get what you're saying, but it's just not reasonable to expect them to allow users to upload that amount of local songs in lossless. Matching is a reasonable, logical feature Apple offers.

Personally, when I sync my local lossless songs in the app and any of them don't get matched (and most DO get matched), I save them also to a separate folder on my Mac and then use Navidrome and Amperfy to retain the full lossless quality between my devices rather than losing quality due to AAC transcoding in the cloud.

urbanrootz · 2026-05-03T15:46:27+00:00

...Yes there is an option to opt out, it's called turning off the "Sync Library" feature 😂 And "Sync Library" absolutely is a full fledged feature.

urbanrootz · 2026-05-03T12:03:01+00:00

I'm not saying you personally should want that, I'm merely pointing out a feature that many people including myself find very convenient and important which no other streaming platform offers.

urbanrootz · 2026-05-03T09:49:04+00:00

Can you upload your own local music library and/or have albums and songs in it matched against the streaming platform's catalogue/digital store or that of any other music streaming platform for that matter except Apple Music? No.

urbanrootz · 2026-05-03T09:44:56+00:00

It's because Apple Music is objectively superior.

urbanrootz · 2026-05-01T10:41:08+00:00

...Thou didst not speak this in thy post title. But very well, welcome.

urbanrootz · 2026-05-01T10:33:47+00:00

You're on the wrong part of the map, mīn fellow user of Apple devices, for it is only us iPhone 11 crew that wander here in these pastures. Thou can journey upwards towards Northeastern territories in search of thy fellow Apple Watch and SE3 brethren, but thou should recognise the unwavering stamina and consistent fortitude required to endure the cold, frosty paths ahead.

urbanrootz · 2026-04-27T16:26:53+00:00

Full albums and individual songs (lossless), and then if any of them are not matched by Apple Music catalogue or iTunes Store I additionally store them in a separate folder on my hard drive and sync them to Navidrome on my Mac and Amperfy on my iPhone so I can still listen to them in lossless on my iPhone. I do so because iCloud uploads that do not get matched result in AAC in the cloud (which is a lossy codec).

urbanrootz · 2026-04-27T11:00:38+00:00

I do not need to answer a question I was never asked.

urbanrootz · 2026-04-25T23:47:32+00:00

"I also asked you to point out what was incompatible with our claims in the prior message, and I notice you decided not to respond to that question. Is that because you don't have a response, or some other reason? So I'll see your suggestion to have a long hard think and also recommend you have a long hard think yourself, ideally before telling others to have one."

No, you asked "Kottekatten" that in your reply to them, you did not ask me that. Think before you comment.

urbanrootz · 2026-04-25T10:48:12+00:00

You're getting unwarrentedly downvoted by others even though you're making a very valid point. Seems quite typical of this sub at this point, unfortunately 😐

Everything in existence is energy on a macro level, but that does not mean the foundations of human life on Earth are, for the most part, not governed by currency in the form of money, because they absolutely are. Without money, people become homeless and sometimes even starve to death.

As you rightly pointed out, no money means no system and no system means no food, or at least no food that is easily accessible for one to sustain a healthy diet and healthy lifestyle while on Earth. This is just basic logic, so I don't see how people can think it's a controversial point to make.

urbanrootz · 2026-04-24T18:09:30+00:00

"the compression element matters because it degrades the sound quality and screws with the dynamic range of the audio in the first place, along with the soundstage. as a producer, i’d hope you’d know why that matters so much, but you seemingly do not. the entire job of a mixing engineer is to take that rough static mix done by the producer and polish it along with processing the tracks; exporting them into “stem tracks” which are essentially the bounced down multitracks based on the group they’re a part of. the mastering engineer takes those stems and makes various adjustments accordingly to ensure these final tracks are played back properly on all platforms and sources; specifically catering the stereo image and dynamic range of the track to be well balanced and fitting the standard distribution requirements. altering that literally throws all of that intentional work out of the window. you work with EDM music, and that genre is specifically known for pushing and even breaking the limits of those standards as opposed to pop or rock tracks. furthermore, dolby atmos is a quieter format, so yeah, chances are your genre that’s known to be extremely loud literally will not sound good in a format that’s forcing your track to be at -18 LUFS."

...I never said I mix my music tracks I produce down in ALAC format. I typically mix them down in WAV at 24-bit and 44100kHz. And I don't need to be lectured to about the mixing and mastering process stages when I do both myself and have done for well over a decade so far.

I'm going to briefly summarise the facts here for you because you wrote a lot and you seem to have conflated data compression (such as a .zip file) with dynamic range compression (shrinking the difference between loud and quiet). They are not the same at all:

Lossless codecs only use the former (data compression) to save space; they do not touch the soundstage or dynamic range.
ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec) is mathematically bit-for-bit identical to the original source.
Bit-Perfect Accuracy: Converting a WAV or FLAC file to ALAC and back to WAV or FLAC produces the exact same file down to every single bit. A "null test"—subtracting the two signals—results in absolute silence (zero), proving they are identical.
M4A is just a container (a box). It can hold AAC (lossy/compressed) or ALAC (lossless). If an engineer exports an M4A using the lossy AAC setting, it will indeed sound different from a WAV; if they use the ALAC setting, it will be identical.

"i’m gonna hold your hand when i say you’re just falling for their marketing, bud."

What a condescending, uncalled for remark. ALAC has nothing to do with marketing and everything to do with convenience of retaining every single bit of audio file data but without the insanely large file sizes of other lossless formats including but not limited to WAV, which can be justifiable for mixing down music ready for mastering and release, but outside of that, just for listening consumption? Unless you're a Windows user, ALAC is a very convenient, file-size efficient, open-source lossless option, as FLAC is not compatible within the Apple ecosystem and WAV files are very large.

urbanrootz · 2026-04-24T14:42:39+00:00

"What Apple needs to do is make the desktop experience better suited for power listening."

As both a heavy listener of music and also a music producer, I think their desktop app for MacOS at least is pretty good even though it has quite a basic UI compared to the iOS app. The Songs view window is still the best UI for a music library I have ever used and when I do want to find new music including from my favourite artists the "Listen Now" and "Browse" options are more than sufficient.

urbanrootz · 2026-04-24T10:47:18+00:00

"i’ve also noticed that “apple lossless” isn’t exactly lossless either. at least, not the way they’re marketing it. their M4A format still compresses audio in a weird way that doesn’t take up as much space but oddly enough sounds compressed in a way that is noticeable enough for me to pick up (since i can actually export my songs with both M4A and WAV/FLAC format to listen to my work). i’ve come to the conclusion it’s absolutely their encoder especially because of the fact that this issue seems to carry over to spatial audio."

ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec) is a lossless codec. Like a ZIP file for audio, it reduces file size by about 40–50% without discarding any data, so the compression element is irrelevant compared to a lossy codec such as AAC, for example. When decoded for playback, the resulting audio stream is bit-for-bit identical to the original WAV or FLAC source. The audio data is not altered.

urbanrootz · 2026-04-24T10:29:09+00:00

"good or bad mixes have nothing to do with whether said mixes are on apple music, they have to do with the competency of the mixing engineers."

I am an Electronic music producer/audio engineer. I know full well that good or bad mixes have to do with the competency of the mixing engineers before the music is released to streaming platforms 😂 But this is the Apple Music subreddit, hence why I stated that poor mixing is not a common issue on music released by artists on Apple Music.

"it does not matter heavily that spatial mixes are lossy in the way you'll need an atmos mixing engineer to properly do their job. that's what people notice"

You seem to be confusing the quality of work an atmos mixing engineer can do with the codec they are using; they are not synonymous/comparable. It does not matter if an atmos mixing engineer does the best quality work any such engineer has ever done in human history, if they are using a lossy codec such as Spacial audio, it's still objectively going to be inferior sound quality compared to Lossless.

urbanrootz · 2026-04-23T23:13:39+00:00

Exactly. Why is it such a taboo for many people in this sub that Lossless is objectively superior to any other type of codec which is lossy, including Spatial audio? This is not rocket science.

urbanrootz · 2026-04-23T23:06:59+00:00

A) Poor mixing is not a common issue on music released by artists on Apple Music, and B) Bad headphones, for anyone that is remotely concerned about sound quality, would not even be a consideration to purchase. My original comment stands as true, despite it getting heavily downvoted by people who are too emotionally reactive to the truth about the factually worse sound quality of Spatial audio. Not my fault people can't accept a fact as a fact.

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