Spotify Add Lossless Audio(24-bit / 44.1 kHz FLAC) for Premium Subscribers
Lossless Listening Arrives on Spotify Premium With a Richer, More Detailed Listening Experience — Spotify
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/37201067
And their CEO thinks music is a product that costs next to nothing to make so it's okay to screw artists over for his billionaire pay check.
Fuck Spotify. Tell everybody you know to use alternatives. Qobuz, Tidal, Deezer...
99% of people are going to use Bluetooth headphones but insist they hear the difference.
This will soon no longer be a gatekeeper, with 6.1 at most 6.2 we will have the high actual available bandwidth for Hi-Res, latency will still be around but quality will finally be on par with low-mid Hi-Res.
LDAC?
Fuck Spotify
Are they going to switch to a reward system that doesn't allow botfarms to steal money from legitimate artists?
No?
That would reduces apparent user volume?
Oh noo...
We left this month, wife is moving to YouTube premium as a way to ease her out of straming services and I'm building our collection of music every month through self-hosting so when she's ready there's a large library for her.
It's been great buying music from artists and listening to whole albums which is not something I normally do.
Spotify doesn't support their artists as far as I'm aware, what money they do spend on creators it's people like Joe Rogan, and they continue to increase the price every month. I'm tired of paying for techno fascist's next Yacht (or election) and this is just one way we're slowly pulling away from subscriptions.
And they still exploit artists
I think they saw that their premium users are now cancelling their subscription and moving to other streaming services, also bands like KGATLW is removing their catalogue from there, so they pulled this move. Not until Spotify start paying artists fairly, moderate the AI music bullshit, stop jacking up the prices, stops supporting the genocide against Palestine, improve their discovery algorithm and the list goes on; Spotify can go fuck itself
You're like 10 years late to the party pals: qobuz, deezer, tidal, ...
They still scam artists and support war drone manufacturers.
Im not against supporting war drone manufacturers so much as ones related to Israel.
I'd buy multiple subscriptions if the proceeds went to Ukrainian drones.
I'll happily stick with my trusty MP3 player we're through it I can play, literally anything I want
Cool, I'll still be using Tidal, as they pay their artists the most, I believe.
According to https://www.soundguys.com/tidal-vs-qobuz-140740/ this is not the case.
| Qobuz | $0.022 |
| Napster | $0.02 |
| Tidal | $0.013 |
| Apple Music | $0.01 |
| Deezer | $0.0064 |
| Spotify | $0.003 - $0.005 |
| Amazon Music | $0.00402 |
| SoundCloud | $0.0025 - $0.004 |
| Pandora | $0.00133 |
| YouTube Music | $0.00069 - $0.0012 |
Same table aligned to cents for easier reading.
| Qobuz | 2.2¢ |
| Napster | 2.0¢ |
| Tidal | 1.3¢ |
| Apple Music | 1.0¢ |
| Deezer | 0.640¢ |
| Spotify | 0.300¢ - 0.500¢ |
| Amazon Music | 0.402¢ |
| SoundCloud | 0.250¢ - 0.400¢ |
| Pandora | 0.133¢ |
| YouTube Music | 0.069¢ - 0.120¢ |
Oof. Top three, but at the same time, half as much as the top paying site does.
Oh, damn. Thank you, my data was outdated then. I guess I'll have to move things to Qobuz, which was a pain last time I transferred a library.
Can't wait for my new hard-drive to arrive so I can further expand my lossless music collection even more.
Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately?) I can't hear a difference between lossless and reasonable bitrate compressed files, so...
So you can hear their ai slop music more clearly.
I've been meaning to look back into spotizerr and now I'm curious if it'll give me lossless.
I failed the npr test so I dont think I need it. Either im to old or use shitty Bluetooth headphones... Or both!
Bluetooth protocol uses AAC to compress audio. If you use lossless audio with Bluetooth headphones it’ll sound the same because either way you’re always listening to compressed audio
Not universally true, mine uses aptx. Depending on the device you can switch between codecs.
It depends, some better Bluetooth headphones (like the Sony WH-1000XM family) support protocols other than SBC, which have a lot higher bandwidth.
To be fair I also tried the test with some 250 dollar monitor headphones and failed too. Probably because the shitty onboard sound card. But also im old.
There is no such thing as lossless audio. 44kHz is bad
44.1 is the LOWEST Hi-Res its just CD quality, literally.
After we got proof of Tidal lying about lossless I had to lock in Qobuz for the foreseeable future. 2nd year already and rarely ever I don't find artists or albums. Deezer was alright for the 5 years I had my account but I could still notice harsh highs on some symphonies and dull-ish Jazz sessions, not my main genres but I'm still glad I made the switch
Why do people upvote you and downvote me though we say the same thing
Gotta say I'm surprised to see Spotify adding something people actually want. It must be getting rough for them.
I might be out of the loop. Who wants this exactly? There is no audible benefit from lossless audio. I rip all my music to lossless files but that's archival. There's nothing to archive with streaming services.
I want this, and although there isn't always a perceptible difference in audio quality, there sometimes can be. It depends on the content, and I'd rather sometimes stream audio at an excessively high bitrate than always lose the high–end definition that I could have enjoyed where it exists.
All my life I've been getting into disagreements with people who believe that because they can't tell the difference between A and B, I must not be able to either. I find this immensely frustrating.
Over bluetooth through a car stereo, no you won't hear a difference. But over a cable through a decent pair of headphones, there is a difference. Even more with a good DAC, amp, and speakers.
The problem with audio quality is that one bad step in the chain from bits to eardrums will nerf the sound quality. So, if you upgrade one step you have to upgrade all of the other steps too before you will reap any benefits.
As a musician and audio engineer, I would love to say that you should experience a richer music listening experience. On the other hand... fucking rent.
I would if they didn't lose me a long time ago. On bluetooth headphones it doesnt make a huge difference. But I used to stream to my Home Theater setup and Spotify sounded horrible compared to the source material. I could also tell a difference with a quality headphone amp and my 250ohm DT770 pros.
Based on the vibes of every internet comment field, literally everyone and their mother wants to stream lossless.
You're right about the audible benefits however
The small community of audiophile
Most people wouldn't be able to notice the difference even with the best possible equipment, but there is a difference.