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I suppose whatever you send to Spotify will then compress more the tape compression making it sound worse? Also reminded of that recent thing about AI improving

I suppose whatever you send to Spotify will then compress more the tape compression making it sound worse? Also reminded of that recent thing about AI improving YouTube videos. I wonder if Spotify would do that about certain things - small creators, concerts, other live performances. At any rate I don't think Master - Tape - Spotify would be likely to sound better than just Master - Spotify.

Aldipower 1y ago
Spotify itself does not compress luckily. They just do loudness normalization, which does not affect the audio quality in itself. But the codec used for streaming does some quality degradation that is for sure. So yeah, it is always better to listen to CD, Tape or what not then to some streaming codec music.
- jdalgetty 1y ago
  Spotify does not sound as good to me as a high quality/bit rate mp3.
  - Aldipower 1y ago
    Makes sense, because Spotify free has a bitrate of 96-160 kbps and "hq" mp3 has 320 kbps.
    - jdalgetty 1y ago
      I use the paid version, I still feel like my downloaded mp3s sound better than the same spotify version.