PCM and Apple Lossless Music

[IonPowr]

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[terence]

The format is fine as the pcm read it and played the flac and wav files..... It just wouldn't play Apple lossless. Confusingly, m4a files can be either Apple lossless or AAC.

 

[lolli]

I have a similar problem with WMA files, they used to play totally fine on my Macan GTS from 2017 , but now it works with Flac or Mp3 but not WMA. Most music I have is in WMA because I have ripped it from CD long time ago with a Bang & Olufsen home System.

 

[pm4s]

Apple Lossless should be a file with a .m4a extension. According to the owners manual, that should be fine.

File extension

.mp3;.wma;.asf;.m4a;.m4b;.aac;.flac;.mpg;.mpeg;.avi;.mp4;.m4v;.mov;.wmv;.3gp;.mkv;.ts;.mid.xmf;.mxmf;.rtttl;.rtx;.imy;.ogg;.webm;.wav

.m4a is an mpeg-4 audio container, it can contain lossy AAC or lossless ALAC
.m4a are unprotected audio files (no DRM), protected (DRM) files are .m4p
Going ONLY by the list quoted above it would appear Macan only supports lossy AAC, no support for lossless ALAC, I will copy 2 .m4a files (1 AAC & 1 ALAC) on a usb drive tomorrow and let you know the result
If you are not sure what codec your .m4a (or any other container) files are encoded with I recommend MediaInfo.

 

[terence]

For everyone's information, I ended up batch converting apple lossless (.m4a) to FLAC files using dbpoweramp (free for 21 days I believe) and it works file in the Macan. If you don't want to do that, I think it works if you use the PCM to play files on your phone (works for my Google pixels).

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