Apple lossless audio - it works!

[SimonJBlandford]

I didn't see this documented in the manual, where it says it will play MP3, WMA and AAC files, but I just tried some ALAC files and amazingly they play fine.

Haven't tried FLAC format yet but it is easy to convert between FLAC and ALAC using ffmpeg, which is what I did.

This is on a 2020 Corolla with USB map updates applied.

[SimonJBlandford]

I can now confirm that it also finds and plays FLAC files, and up to 24bit/192KHz too.

Looks like the instruction manual is way too conservative in describing what formats can be played.

[Red_Corolla]

It's not the best equipment to take advantage of such high quality media, but nice to know 

[2badmice]

On 9/9/2023 at 10:59 AM, SimonJBlandford said:

I didn't see this documented in the manual, where it says it will play MP3, WMA and AAC files, but I just tried some ALAC files and amazingly they play fine.

Haven't tried FLAC format yet but it is easy to convert between FLAC and ALAC using ffmpeg, which is what I did.

This is on a 2020 Corolla with USB map updates applied.

Supported in AA too.  No playback issues whatsoever. 

[beeblebrox]

Compatible compressed files
Item USB
Compatible file format
MP3/WMA/AAC
WAV(LPCM)/
FLAC/ALAC/
OGG Vorbis
MP4/AVI/WMV

[Paul john]

Interesting thread. 
I have been playing hires lossless iPhone music over a carlinkit 5 carplay wireless-wired adapter into the JBL head unit. 
The content is great and the JBL amp complements that.