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Spotify adds lossless streaming after 8 years of teasing

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Submitted ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨nemeski@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.zip⁩

https://www.theverge.com/spotify/775189/spotify-lossless-streaming-flac-audio

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  • Stillwater@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Cool! Also, if you subscribe to Spotify, your money goes to building military AI war machines!

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  • otacon239@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There is a catch, however. Spotify’s lossless option tops out at 24-bit / 44.1 kHz FLAC. Apple Music, Tidal, and Qobuz all offer HiRes FLAC support at up to 24-bit / 192 kHz. Granted, once you start entering 24-bit FLAC territory it can get pretty hard to tell the difference unless you’re a particularly demanding audiophile with a soundsystem priced in the same range as a used sedan.

    I was about the point of the pedantry in the chest half, but they covered themselves. Anyone who says they can hear this difference is fooling themselves.

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    • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Higher resolutions and sample rates only matter when the recordings are going to be edited.

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