What is Lossless audio in Ombient?
Ombient supports Lossless audio for higher sound quality during playback.
You can enable it in the player, and sessions then play in the best available quality.
How to turn it on
Open any session so the player is on screen.
Look for the Lossless option in the player.
Enable it, and playback switches to the higher quality version.
You can turn it off again the same way whenever you want.
What you actually gain
Lossless keeps more of the detail of the original recording, which matters most in quiet material: the tail of a bell, the texture of a soundscape, the low frequencies in a mantra track.
The difference is easiest to hear on good headphones. Through a phone speaker in a noisy room you may not notice it at all, and that is normal rather than a fault.
The trade-off worth knowing
Lossless files are larger, so streaming them uses more data.
Downloads for offline listening also take up more storage in this quality.
On a weak connection, the higher quality is the first thing that struggles.
If you are on limited mobile data or short on storage, leaving Lossless off is a perfectly reasonable choice.
If playback stutters after enabling it
Turn Lossless off and see whether the session plays smoothly again. If it does, it was the connection and not the app.
You can also download the session first and play it offline in full quality. If problems continue either way, see the article about content not playing, or write to us from Contact Us in your Profile or at [email protected].