Spotify HiFi is a lossless streaming tier coming later in 2021
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uofmtiger
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That is great news. I hope Apple Music follows suit. I would love to have just one service down the road.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/22/22295273/spotify-hifi-announced-lossless-streaming-hd-quality
Anyone know any more about this? I want to say TAKE MY MONEY but I guess the real question is how much of their library is 16/44.1 or better? Will suddenly everything be available in minimum CD quality, or only selected tracks/albums? Will we be able to tell by looking at the interface on our phone or PC? ANSWERS MAN I WANT ANSWERS...
seriously this is pretty exciting, although it is also somewhat sad as it may mean that 95% of my CD collection just became redundant.
Anyone know any more about this? I want to say TAKE MY MONEY but I guess the real question is how much of their library is 16/44.1 or better? Will suddenly everything be available in minimum CD quality, or only selected tracks/albums? Will we be able to tell by looking at the interface on our phone or PC? ANSWERS MAN I WANT ANSWERS...
seriously this is pretty exciting, although it is also somewhat sad as it may mean that 95% of my CD collection just became redundant.
uofmtiger
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It doesn’t work with Roon or Audirvana, which is an issue for a lot of audiophiles. Currently, it isn’t integrated into Apple devices as well as Apple Music. What they have is Spotify Connect and a huge customer base to sell the service to. It will be interesting to see how many move to Spotify from Tidal or Qobuz or choose the lossless tier when they haven’t had an interest in the past.
Gnesen
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I’m happy to hear this news. I’ve tried Tidal, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Qobuz, and Spotify. Oh, and Deezer too. I happen to like Spotify’s interface and curated playlists the best, so hopefully the hi-res service is reasonably priced.
@bberkom, it’s been a year or two since I’ve tried Qobuz, Should I give it another shot? I seem to recall their interface being quite clunky.
@bberkom, it’s been a year or two since I’ve tried Qobuz, Should I give it another shot? I seem to recall their interface being quite clunky.
jayvis
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Qobuz, like many of the other services, caters more to cell phone users. If you use Windows operating system on a PC, I've found it to be very unreliable. And their customer service and technical assistance is pretty much non existent. So much so that I've cancelled my subscription twice. If Spotify can pull this off at $14.99 or less, they'll most likely stay at the top of all streaming services.
I'll sign up, if the price is at all reasonable. I like their Spotify's system and interface a great deal. I've been using Qobuz as well, but it just doesn't work as well as Spotify and I'm having a hard time keeping the subscription as it just isn't worth it, even in the rare cases where a track may sound a bit better (to my ears) on Qobuz.
Yep, you should - what size is your pipe/bandwidth?
we're 100M on FIOS
Why stream 192/24 content to a phone? What services do not?
Can't speak for Windows, but I've not had any difficulties using either Chrome or their MacOS client in the office system nor my primary use with a plugin to LMS.
uofmtiger
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I use Qobuz with Audirvana on the Mac and it allows for DLNA. I am also testing Roon right now (works with Airplay and Casting). In both cases, Qobuz works great without a glitch. I don't have their actual app on my computer, but I have used the iOS app with Casting and never had an issue.
120mbps
Should be flawless then, depending on how many user-loads you have on the pipe at a given moment.
Last spring/summer when our 2 adult kids moved back home with their significant others we didn’t hit the monthly limit of 1TB. Averaged around 850GB. And that was with constant video, audio streaming and gaming.
Now that we’re back to 2 in the house, ironically, my ISP recently upped the limit to 1.2TB.
