Mon. 05/17 – Better Quality Streaming Audio (Basically) For Free

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🗓️ 17 May 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Apple Music and Amazon Music HD bring better audio quality to everyone. AT&T throws in the towel on Warner Media by doing a shotgun marriage with Discovery. GitHub now lets you add video. Jane Manchun Wong says the subscription service is going to be called Twitter Blue. And what we might be able to expect from Google’s I/O tomorrow. Sponsors: Kiwico.com promocode: ride Cybereason.com Links: Apple announces lossless Apple Music is coming in June at no added cost (The Verge) Amazon Music Drops HD Tier to $9.99, Shaking Up Hi-Fi Streaming Market (Billboard) AT&T to spin off and combine WarnerMedia with Discovery in deal that would create streaming giant (CNN Business) Microsoft Teams launches for friends and family with free all-day video calling (The Verge) GitHub now lets all developers upload videos to demo bugs and features (Venture Beat) ‘Twitter Blue’ subscription service to include undo tweets feature and ‘Collections,’ priced at $2.99 (9to5 Mac) Bill Gates Left Microsoft Board Amid Probe Into Prior Relationship With Staffer (Wall Street Journal) Google's Android 12 redesign leaks with theme support, new animations, more (Phone Arena) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Monday, May 17th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.4	Apple Music and Amazon Music HD bring better quality audio to everyone.
0:14.7	AT&T throws in the towel on Warner Media by doing a shotgun marriage with Discovery.
0:19.6	GitHub now lets you add video.
0:22.1	Jane Manchin Wong says the subscription service is going to be called
0:25.2	Twitter Blue and what we might be able to expect from Google's I.O. tomorrow.
0:30.5	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:36.0	Apple says it will bring lossless audio to all Apple music subscribers for free
0:42.0	and will support spatial audio with Dolby Atmos
0:44.8	available from June quoting the verge. The company says it'll have 75 million
0:51.6	lossless audio songs in its catalog by the end of the year and 20
0:55.9	million to begin with. Apple has confirmed to The Verge that lossless audio
1:00.2	is exclusive to Apple Music and thus subscription only. The company won't offer music
1:05.5	purchases in lossless quality, nor will there be any way to upgrade owned tracks to
1:11.1	Lossless with the paid iTunes Match service. To turn on Lossless
1:15.8	Audio subscribers must run the latest version of Apple Music and go to
1:19.8	settings, Music, and then audio quality.
1:23.0	There they can opt into different resolutions
1:25.3	for different connections like cellular,
1:27.0	Wi-Fi, or for download.
1:29.2	Apple Music's lossless audio starts at CD quality, which is 16 bit at 44.1 kilohertz and goes up to 24 bit at
1:38.1	48 kilohertz natively on Apple devices.
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