Kunyangwe paine chokwadi chekuti Apple inoshandisa fomati yevaridzi pasina kurasikirwa kwehunhu hunodaidzwa kuti ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec), fomati inongowirirana nezvigadzirwa zveApple, nharaunda yeaudiophile inoshandisa fomati yeFLAC, fomati inoenderana nemapuratifomu mazhinji.
Mune iyo HomePod yakatarwa, maratidziro ayo atove pachena, sezvo Apple yakazivisa zuva rekuburitsa ichi chishandiso, tinogona kuona kuti iyo FLAC isina kurasikirwa fomati inoenderana neiyo HomePod, iyo inofadza vanofarira mimhanzi, Y Izvo zvinobvumidza Apple kuti iwane kuenda-mberi kubva munharaunda ino.
Fomati yeFLAC haifanire kuvhiringidzwa nemhando yepamusoro iyo iyo Spotify neApple Music vatinopa, izvo zvinoshandisa compression kubva pa256 kusvika 320 Kbps.Vashandisi veApple vagara vachibvunza vakomana kubva kuCupertino nezve kuenderana kwayo. Fomati, kuenderana kwatinowana parizvino inogona kuwana zvese mu macOS ine QuickTime, uye muIOS Files application, asi HAPANA muTunes, danho risingaratidzwe nemunhu uye kuti mukufunga harina chikonzero chinowoneka, asi kuziva Apple, zvikonzero zvacho zvichave, zvikonzero isu zvimwe hatizomboziva.
Iyo fomati yeFLAC, inoitika kuti yakavhurika sosi (saka Apple haifanire kubhadhara kuenderana pamidziyo yayo), zvakakosha kuti ukwanise kunakidzwa nemimhanzi kuburikidza neAirPlay kuburikidza nePodPod, nekuti kutamba kuburikidza neBluetooth kunoderedza kunaka kwayo (kunze kwekunge isu tinoshandisa iyo Apt X codec), nekuda kwechikwata chechikwata. Kutenda kune tekinoroji yeAirPlay 2 yeHomePod, kurasikirwa kwemhando, kana kuripo, kuri kuita nil, saka ichave imwe yemafomati anoshandiswa nevose vanoda Nakidzwa nema nuances ese zvizere iyo inovapa ivo nziyo dzavanofarira.