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Spotify Add Lossless Audio(24-bit / 44.1 kHz FLAC) for Premium Subscribers
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They still scam artists and support war drone manufacturers.
this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2025
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Im not against supporting war drone manufacturers so much as ones related to Israel.
I'd buy multiple subscriptions if the proceeds went to Ukrainian drones.
I think they saw that their premium users are now cancelling their subscription and moving to other streaming services, also bands like KGATLW is removing their catalogue from there, so they pulled this move. Not until Spotify start paying artists fairly, moderate the AI music bullshit, stop jacking up the prices, stops supporting the genocide against Palestine, improve their discovery algorithm and the list goes on; Spotify can go fuck itself
And they still exploit artists
99% of people are going to use Bluetooth headphones but insist they hear the difference.
This will soon no longer be a gatekeeper, with 6.1 at most 6.2 we will have the high actual available bandwidth for Hi-Res, latency will still be around but quality will finally be on par with low-mid Hi-Res.
I've been meaning to look back into spotizerr and now I'm curious if it'll give me lossless.
There is no such thing as lossless audio. 44kHz is bad
44.1 is the LOWEST Hi-Res its just CD quality, literally.
After we got proof of Tidal lying about lossless I had to lock in Qobuz for the foreseeable future. 2nd year already and rarely ever I don't find artists or albums. Deezer was alright for the 5 years I had my account but I could still notice harsh highs on some symphonies and dull-ish Jazz sessions, not my main genres but I'm still glad I made the switch
Why do people upvote you and downvote me though we say the same thing
I failed the npr test so I dont think I need it. Either im to old or use shitty Bluetooth headphones... Or both!
Bluetooth protocol uses AAC to compress audio. If you use lossless audio with Bluetooth headphones it’ll sound the same because either way you’re always listening to compressed audio
It depends, some better Bluetooth headphones (like the Sony WH-1000XM family) support protocols other than SBC, which have a lot higher bandwidth.
To be fair I also tried the test with some 250 dollar monitor headphones and failed too. Probably because the shitty onboard sound card. But also im old.
Not universally true, mine uses aptx. Depending on the device you can switch between codecs.
So you can hear their ai slop music more clearly.
You're like 10 years late to the party pals: qobuz, deezer, tidal, ...
Gotta say I'm surprised to see Spotify adding something people actually want. It must be getting rough for them.
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Fuck Spotify
Are they going to switch to a reward system that doesn't allow botfarms to steal money from legitimate artists?
No?
That would reduces apparent user volume?
Oh noo...
Cool, I'll still be using Tidal, as they pay their artists the most, I believe.
According to https://www.soundguys.com/tidal-vs-qobuz-140740/ this is not the case.
| Qobuz | $0.022 |
| Napster | $0.02 |
| Tidal | $0.013 |
| Apple Music | $0.01 |
| Deezer | $0.0064 |
| Spotify | $0.003 - $0.005 |
| Amazon Music | $0.00402 |
| SoundCloud | $0.0025 - $0.004 |
| Pandora | $0.00133 |
| YouTube Music | $0.00069 - $0.0012 |
Same table aligned to cents for easier reading.
| Qobuz | 2.2¢ |
| Napster | 2.0¢ |
| Tidal | 1.3¢ |
| Apple Music | 1.0¢ |
| Deezer | 0.640¢ |
| Spotify | 0.300¢ - 0.500¢ |
| Amazon Music | 0.402¢ |
| SoundCloud | 0.250¢ - 0.400¢ |
| Pandora | 0.133¢ |
| YouTube Music | 0.069¢ - 0.120¢ |
Jesus H Christmas, that's depressing
Oh, damn. Thank you, my data was outdated then. I guess I'll have to move things to Qobuz, which was a pain last time I transferred a library.
Oof. Top three, but at the same time, half as much as the top paying site does.
Can't wait for my new hard-drive to arrive so I can further expand my lossless music collection even more.
Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately?) I can't hear a difference between lossless and reasonable bitrate compressed files, so...
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