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I'm sure other music services like Spotify will match Apple Music's lossless quality in order to keep competing for the audiophile market. Personally, lossless

I'm sure other music services like Spotify will match Apple Music's lossless quality in order to keep competing for the audiophile market. Personally, lossless quality just sounds like a great way to blow through my data caps even faster. I'm sure some will love it, I question whether it's worth the extra bandwidth.

willejs 5y ago
Spotify have it in the works, for release later this year. https://newsroom.spotify.com/2021-02-22/five-things-to-know-about-spotify-hifi/ https://newsroom.spotify.com/2021-02-22/five-things-to-know-...
- hulitu 5y ago
  " Spotify HiFi will deliver music in CD-quality, lossless audio format to your device and Spotify Connect-enabled speakers". So they will stream some DRM-ed wav files ?
- input_sh 5y ago
  > Premium subscribers in select markets will be able to upgrade their sound quality to Spotify HiFi This sounds like it'll be an additional cost (like it is with Tidal), as opposed to Apple Music. Also I really can't think of a reason why it'd be region-locked. But anyways, been hoping for this for years and will definitely switch if I'm not geo-locked out of it. I've experimented a lot with FLAC and 320 kbps and I can clearly notice the difference in my mid 20s with a couple of hundred euros worth of audio setup.
  - arihant 5y ago
    One reason it may be region locked for Spotify is that they offer services at throwaway price in certain regions and those regions probably won’t subscribe to a much more expensive variant at enough volume to warrant delivery capacity. They offer Spotify premium for under $2 in Russia and India, for example. Apple offers at similar price point, but they are able to sell expensive phones and earphones that Spotify does not.
nvrspyx 5y ago
I'm sure there'll be an option to stream at a different quality and an option to download the lossless versions, which you could do over wifi. For both Spotify and Apple Music, I stream at "normal" quality, but download at "high" quality. I'm sure those options will extend to lossless.
notyourwork 5y ago
Amazon Music has had lossless for awhile. https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=14070322011 https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=14070322011

willejs 5y ago

Spotify have it in the works, for release later this year. https://newsroom.spotify.com/2021-02-22/five-things-to-know-about-spotify-hifi/ https://newsroom.spotify.com/2021-02-22/five-things-to-know-...

hulitu 5y ago
" Spotify HiFi will deliver music in CD-quality, lossless audio format to your device and Spotify Connect-enabled speakers". So they will stream some DRM-ed wav files ?
input_sh 5y ago
> Premium subscribers in select markets will be able to upgrade their sound quality to Spotify HiFi This sounds like it'll be an additional cost (like it is with Tidal), as opposed to Apple Music. Also I really can't think of a reason why it'd be region-locked. But anyways, been hoping for this for years and will definitely switch if I'm not geo-locked out of it. I've experimented a lot with FLAC and 320 kbps and I can clearly notice the difference in my mid 20s with a couple of hundred euros worth of audio setup.
- arihant 5y ago
  One reason it may be region locked for Spotify is that they offer services at throwaway price in certain regions and those regions probably won’t subscribe to a much more expensive variant at enough volume to warrant delivery capacity. They offer Spotify premium for under $2 in Russia and India, for example. Apple offers at similar price point, but they are able to sell expensive phones and earphones that Spotify does not.

nvrspyx 5y ago

I'm sure there'll be an option to stream at a different quality and an option to download the lossless versions, which you could do over wifi. For both Spotify and Apple Music, I stream at "normal" quality, but download at "high" quality. I'm sure those options will extend to lossless.

notyourwork 5y ago

Amazon Music has had lossless for awhile. https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=14070322011 https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=14070322011