henning65 6 Posted September 20, 2020 Share Posted September 20, 2020 I'm running emby on Synology NAS (DSM 6.xx). I'm using iOS 14 Phone / iPad and iMac (Catalina) to play music. I would like to ask wether the lossless audio files are transcoded to be played or not. As far as I understand (see https://support.emby.media/support/solutions/articles/44001161688-ios) emby can direct play Flac only. ALAC / m4a is not listed. As far as I understand there might be a second bottleneck to overcome: the iOS device "normally" transcodes to AAC before playing. So does the embay-ios app follow this procedure? Or do I listen to hi-res lossless audio? (if my file is lossless audio). In addition - what about m4b? is this format also ready for direct play? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37009 Posted September 20, 2020 Share Posted September 20, 2020 Hi, our iOS and macos apps can direct play all of those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henning65 6 Posted September 21, 2020 Author Share Posted September 21, 2020 @Luke: I found this article: https://www.whathifi.com/advice/how-to-play-hi-res-music-your-iphone-0 It mainly says not all iOS music apps truly deliver hi res music - even when the source is hi res. So please: could you confirm that the emby iOS app truly delivers hi res - that I will listen to hi res a) directly using the iPhone speakers b) Bluetooth Speaker Sennheiser PXC 550 c) Bluetooth Speaker BEATS Powerbeats pro thanks for this clarification Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37009 Posted September 21, 2020 Share Posted September 21, 2020 Hi, yes the player we're embedding supports high-res audio. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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