Apple Digital Masters
Studio-quality sound. For everyone.
By working with the best-possible masters, we are able to offer our Apple Music and iTunes customers the highest-possible quality audio. Our latest encoder can take advantage of every bit of the high-resolution masters that engineers are creating especially for us. The results, both for streaming and download, are virtually indistinguishable from the original 24-bit studio masters. In addition, Apple Music now offers lossless versions of these masters using the Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC).