Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Apple Lossless Audio Codec" in English language version.
If you have songs encoded in ALAC, WAV, or AIFF formats, we create an AAC 256 Kbps version and upload it to iCloud so that it can be played on all of your other devices.
We create AAC 256Kbps versions of songs that are encoded in ALAC, WAV, or AIFF formats and add the AAC version to iCloud Music Library.
Apple Music will also make its catalog of more than 75 million songs available in Lossless Audio. Apple uses ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec) to preserve every single bit of the original audio file. This means Apple Music subscribers will be able to hear the exact same thing that the artists created in the studio.
