Sometimes it happens that it is the code of an iOS app that reveals future products or news, and this time, ironically, it happened in an Android app. The 9to5Google team delved into the source code of the Apple Music .APK executable file for the platform and discovered messages indicating the arrival of high fidelity to the service
Apple Music Hi-Fi will warn of high data and storage consumption
In version 3.6 beta of said executable, which would be the equivalent of the .APP file in applications for macOS, they were found mentions of “uncompressed audio files” and notices that will alert the user to the storage and consumption of data that they will involve.
They actually use precise numbers: Apple Music can store around 3,000 songs in 10GB of space, but note that with high fidelity uncompressed audio. only about 1000 can be stored in the same space. The format of the songs without compression will be .ALAC, owned by Apple.
Likewise, a song without any compression and with high fidelity can consume approximately 145MB of data depending on the length of the song. Entire albums could consume 1 or 2 GB, so some playlists could completely deplete our monthly mobile data throughput. We will have to be careful.
With these warning messages prepared in the Apple app, rumors of an upcoming version of Apple Music Hi-Fi are taking more seriously. Surprises could arise next week.
