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I urge you to ABX it. Spotify's highest bitrate (320kbit/s) is perceptually lossless. Probably the high bitrate as well, since they seem to use Ogg Vorbis.
by archagon 4y ago
I urge you to ABX it. Spotify's highest bitrate (320kbit/s) is perceptually lossless. Probably the high bitrate as well, since they seem to use Ogg Vorbis.
- elektronaut 4y agoIt’s the source material, not the codec. Some albums sound vastly better on say Apple Music, regardless of lossless or lossy encoding. It’s almost like Spotify have older, inferior masters that they’ve never updated. You’re right that it’s not the technology. I’ve released a few albums, and they sound virtually indistinguishable across various services since they’re from the same master files.
- leonidasv 4y agoI've done some, really there are subtle differences in a file from the same mix in a lossless vs lossy, but sure, you can't notice it if you're not really paying close attention. But Spotify problem is not the use of lossy 320kpbs compression, they're probably not using good source material or just upscaling 128/192 to 320. Their quality is worse than a pure lossless stream properly compressed to 320.