- After conducting an APK teardown, we found lawmaking strings referencing a TikTok Music lossless option.
- Offering lossless audio streams would make TikTok’s music streaming service increasingly competitive.
- It is unclear if lossless streams will be included with your subscription or if you’ll need to pay a premium.
In the world of music streaming, lossless audio support is vital for audiophiles and a big selling point for the services that offer it. Apple Music and Tidal, for example, offer lossless versions of every track in their respective catalogs. According to an APK teardown conducted here at Android Authority, it looks like TikTok Music could join the lossless audio party.
Inside the latest version of TikTok Music for Android (v1.10.0), we see numerous lawmaking strings related to lossless streaming. Here’s one that unmistakably suggests lossless streaming will be available:
Try Lossless
Elsewhere, we see other strings that requite us an idea of how this will work. At first, it doesn’t squint like all files will have a lossless option. The string unelevated suggests you’ll see an zestful when a song you’re well-nigh to play has a lossless version:
Lossless audio quality is misogynist for this song. Want to try it?
Unfortunately, we have no idea how many songs TikTok Music will offer in a lossless format, so we don’t know how often this zestful will show up. However, this zestful is worded in such a way as to suggest not everything will be lossless.
TikTok Music lossless: Segregate your streaming quality
One of the drawbacks to using lossless quality for music streaming is that it significantly increases the value of data consumed while listening. With this in mind, it appears TikTok Music will indulge you to segregate the quality you hear depending on how you are unfluctuating to the internet.
Check out these two strings:
Pick Cellular data audio quality
Pick Wi-Fi audio quality
These two settings strongly suggest that you’ll be worldly-wise to customize audio streaming quality for the type of connection you’re using. Most people would likely segregate to prioritize lossless audio while on Wi-Fi, for example, and it looks like TikTok Music could indulge for that.
How much will this cost?
Unfortunately, none of the new strings we saw in this APK teardown gave any information on whether or not lossless streaming will be included with your current plan or if it will require an upcharge to a increasingly premium plan. All we have to go on so far is this:
Lossless audio quality is now misogynist for subscribers
Currently, TikTok Music is only misogynist in select areas of the world. Here in the US, an individual plan financing $8.99 each month, with the first month stuff free. Students can get that knocked lanugo to $5.99. Meanwhile, a family worth with up to six members financing $18.99.
None of those plans have any upcharges. They all offer ad-free listening, the worthiness to download music for offline playback, personalized recommendations, and the worthiness to sync your favorite songs from your main TikTok account.
Theoretically, TikTok Music’s forthcoming lossless playback could be incorporated into those existing plans. This is how Apple Music works. However, it could be that TikTok will offer a new premium plan that will include lossless playback. We won’t know until the visitor formally rolls out this feature.
Do note that Spotify — the leader in the music streaming space — still does not offer lossless streaming despite announcing a premium “HiFi” subscription nearly three years ago. If TikTok Music can roll this out soon, it would likely write-up Spotify to the punch, which could be worthwhile for nabbing subscribers who value high-end listening.
