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Spotify code suggests HiFi tier is coming with lossless audio for $20 / month
- Woshiwuja 3y agoUnless you got a good sound system this doesnt even matter, wonder what the market share for this is
- 4oo4 3y agoSo this means that royalty rates for lossless streaming will be double the royalty rates for lossy streaming, right? (/s) Since mastering for Spotify is usually optimized for earbuds and cheap speakers (i.e. more compressed) instead of a decent set of speakers/headphones that try to give as much soundstage/detail as possible, this is likely going to just be a huge waste of bandwidth.
- siffland 3y agoMy kids laugh at me because I still buy CDs and rip them and some bandcamp. I rip to flac, not for some audiophile reason, but because I can rip a single file for the album with metadata included and space is cheap. I never have to worry about an internet connection or if an artist drops from a platform.
- Our_Benefactors 3y agoI would buy more CD if they were available but many artists don’t even press them.
- willcipriano 3y agoI do the same but run it though Picard[0] before adding to Plex. [0]https://picard.musicbrainz.org/ https://picard.musicbrainz.org/
- digitalsushi 3y agoMy best friend learned how the shell works because of bandcamp. He spent one summer ripping about 400 CDs he owned. He was ripping them into a directory called .junk. He moved each into the parent directory when it was complete. And the final command of his project was 'rm -rf . junk'.
- _the_inflator 3y ago400 times 10-20 USD = 4000-8000 USD. Divided by 20 amounts to 16-33 years. Roughly. That’s why I don’t bother about CDs anymore. I used to carry them around privately on a NAT Server many years ago, copying them to my iPod.
- CameronNemo 3y ago1. You are assuming the goal is to spend as little money on art as possible. Which isn't the case for a lot of us. 2. Not everything is on Spotify. E.g. the song Golden Girl by Frank Ocean. Or most Neil Young songs.
- happymellon 3y agoTab to complete is something that everyone eventually discovers is more than just a shortcut. It's a proofreader too.
- eutropia 3y agoThe final command of his first project, you mean - because surely then he started over?
- blibble 3y agoaccidental space after . deletes everything classic typo
- soupbowl 3y agoI do the same but per track flac and stream my music with navidrome. When I am out of the house I VPN in and stream my music at work or while driving.
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- kderbyma 3y agoalso there is a FOSS platform.....Navidrome
- satvikpendem 3y agoCan people really tell the difference in day-to-day usage, ie not sitting at your desk in complete silence with your thousand dollar audiophile over-the-ear headphones? I mean, I have such a setup too but it doesn't bother me much to listen to merely "high" quality Spotify if I were to walk around outside, as I wouldn't be able to tell the difference there.
- doublepg23 3y agoMight be a Pascals wager of sorts but if I'm spending so much $$ on audio equipment why wouldn't I want to remove compression from the equation?
- daedalus_j 3y agoIf you play music on a half decent car stereo, or home sound system, yes, you can 100% tell the difference. Spotify "high" sounds absolutely flat compared to a lossless rip of the same track. (and doesn't have anywhere near the bass) On earbuds? No.
- LispSporks22 3y ago> Can people really tell the difference No, and neither can the audiophiles. Well, except those using oxygen free gold plated Ethernet cables.
- EverForever 3y agoI can and I don't have gold-plated cables nor am I part of an audiophile community. The people who say you can't are worse than the audiophiles themselves, who I didn't even know before all the whining that there is no one in the world who can hear the difference. One guy had an audio test site and I did the one on my Chromebook with the Chromebook speakers and got 100%. I can definitely hear the difference between a real flac and mp3. The quality is not necessarily better but the highs go higher with flac. MP3s don't go that high, they're clipped and you can hear that. That's how you can, I can tell with songs. In addition, when I play the same song over bluetooth with my iPhone (Spotify, highest quality) and Walkman A55 (Flac) over a 300€ sound system, even my father can hear the difference and he is 53 and worked his whole life in a factory. The statistics on the subject that I have read (from discussion links because I was perplex people said no one can hear a difference) clearly said that most people don’t hear the difference, but that there are indeed people who can tell the difference!
- danpalmer 3y agoI do hope not. I enjoy the lossless audio on Apple Music and don’t really want my subscription price to double if they see Spotify charging a higher price for it.
- SkyPuncher 3y agoSpotify seems to be doing everything they can to get in the way of listening to music. I’m getting very tired of popup screens at the most annoying of times.
- lnxg33k1 3y agoPrecise precise the reason I stopped using spotify, I wish enough people would send the message that our time is not theirs, and they absolutely must not take the whole screen hostage for their crap