Airplay 2 bitrate support?

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Jeff Steiner

• July 23, 2019 19:28

I am trying to find specs for Airplay 2 bitrate support? Meaning - If I have a 96 kHz / 24 bit music file that is being played over Airplay 2, will it be transmitted in full glory, or be compressed?

I'm asking because I'm looking at picking up a Node 2i to be a DAC to my headphone amp.

Thanks in advance!

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  Wesley P.

  • July 23, 2019 20:38

  Hello Jeff,

  Airplay itself streams in lossless ALAC 16/44.1 even if you are playing a higher bitrate from your original source. This means if you are playing 24/96 audio from your Node 2i, Airplay will compress it to 16/44.1 before sending it over your network. Unfortunately this is a limitation of Airplay and not the Node 2i so there is no way for us to make any changes to avoid this compression in a future update.

  Regards,
  Wesley P.
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  Jeff Steiner

  • July 23, 2019 21:05

  Thank you. That's what I was afraid of, although I couldn't be certain. 

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  Stanley Goldfader

  • December 20, 2023 18:43

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