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Spotify is finally launching support for lossless music streaming (techcrunch.com)
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[–] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (12 children)

why all this fuss about lossless audio? Spotify premium is literally indistinguishable from lossless audio for 99.9% of the population and songs (because not all songs will be lossless or are even mastered in a way that makes a difference). granted if...

  • you have the right hardware
  • you have the ear trained to hear compression
  • you picked a song that has audible compression artifacts however small they may be
  • you are in a quiet room
  • you are actively looking for compression artifacts

you may hear a difference. if you think otherwise, then do a lossy vs lossless blind test and be impressed that you actually cannot hear the difference most of the time (especially without actively looking for the artifacts)

[–] zrst@lemmy.cif.su 8 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

You don't need a trained ear for lossless audio to be different for lossy audio.

[–] independantiste@sh.itjust.works -3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

do a blind test between ogg 320kbps which Spotify premium uses and FLAC and tell me your score then

my point is, if you're not working on that audio, there is no audible difference between two

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge 1 points 5 hours ago

Depends on the song as well.

Are we comparing a rip of a 1990's album to a remaster, or a vinyl rip?

I guess if you really want to find a baseline, pick a band that's known for audio quality and pick an album with the best.

[–] 6nk06@sh.itjust.works 2 points 19 hours ago

I compress everything with Opus 192kbp/s (way over the human ear). I get the quality of FLAC with the size of an MP4. Also Spotify sucks with their AI slop.

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