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Spotify Add Lossless Audio(24-bit / 44.1 kHz FLAC) for Premium Subscribers
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this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2025
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Gotta say I'm surprised to see Spotify adding something people actually want. It must be getting rough for them.
I might be out of the loop. Who wants this exactly? There is no audible benefit from lossless audio. I rip all my music to lossless files but that's archival. There's nothing to archive with streaming services.
Most people wouldn't be able to notice the difference even with the best possible equipment, but there is a difference.
Of course there technically is a difference, you can easily see it with any tool that can render a spectrogram. Humans cannot hear this difference though, so there is no point in streaming the extra data.
I mean this is just wrong.
Prove it