I suddenly noticed that while playing Qobuz connected through USB to my Spring 3 the bitrate changes on the Spring’s screen although the Mac is known to push out everything at 44.1K (unless you change it to a higher setting but it’s always the same value).
Did something change and I miss the news?
For comparison - running Roon with Qobuz shows the regular expected behavior.
If you have the spring selected as your desired sound output on qobuz it will automatically switch sample rates for you to whatever file you’re trying to play back. So if you’re playing an 88.2 track it will switch accordingly (depending on the software and settings it will switch back to the last selected sample rate set on MIDI or it will leave it as is). It should be the same for roon and other music playback software, except the native Mac music app (which I hope gets implemented in the next major software update).
I love Apple Music Lossless, but don’t use a Mac as my source because of this. For now an iPad to a DDC works fine for me.
Hopefully this gets resolved in a future update.
I used an iPad to DDC for a while until one night I forgot about the cable and almost pulled my entire system with me carrying the iPad!
Oof!
That’s definitely a potential catastrophe. 
I use the iPad for more ‘serious’ listening. I also use an Apple TV for background listening as well. It’s not as good, but it’s technically Lossless, and it sounds pretty good to my ears.
If I wasn’t happy with Apple Music, I’d definitely use Roon. Such a great interface.
Same with me, I’m mostly running my chain using Apple Music from my iPhone into my DDC.
I can’t take a picture of it at the moment, but I also got a nice little stand for my phone on my desk, so I haven’t had any issues with cable snags yet!
By the way, what are people using to play local files from an iPad/iPhone? (Last I checked, I’m pretty sure if you add your own music to Apple Music, then try to stream it, Apple serves it as 16/44.1 AAC.)
I abused the system a while back when Apple first started doing this. I was able to upload a crapload of lossy files, most not even 320kbps and then you can delete the local file and download it from the Apple Music cloud it would indeed give you a 16/44 ACC.
I haven’t been on an Apple Music ecosystem since at least pre covid.
I personally use foobar. Is there ios support for it?
I just checked the AppStore. They have this available for download.