[HN Gopher] Spotify code suggests HiFi tier is coming with lossl...
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Spotify code suggests HiFi tier is coming with lossless audio for
$20 / month
Author : mfiguiere
Score : 13 points
Date : 2023-09-24 20:14 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.theverge.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.theverge.com)
| siffland wrote:
| My kids laugh at me because I still buy CDs and rip them and some
| bandcamp. I rip to flac, not for some audiophile reason, but
| because I can rip a single file for the album with metadata
| included and space is cheap.
|
| I never have to worry about an internet connection or if an
| artist drops from a platform.
| willcipriano wrote:
| I do the same but run it though Picard[0] before adding to
| Plex.
|
| [0]https://picard.musicbrainz.org/
| kderbyma wrote:
| also there is a FOSS platform.....Navidrome
| Our_Benefactors wrote:
| I would buy more CD if they were available but many artists
| don't even press them.
| digitalsushi wrote:
| My best friend learned how the shell works because of bandcamp.
|
| He spent one summer ripping about 400 CDs he owned.
|
| He was ripping them into a directory called .junk. He moved
| each into the parent directory when it was complete.
|
| And the final command of his project was 'rm -rf . junk'.
| soupbowl wrote:
| I do the same but per track flac and stream my music with
| navidrome. When I am out of the house I VPN in and stream my
| music at work or while driving.
| satvikpendem wrote:
| Can people really tell the difference in day-to-day usage, ie not
| sitting at your desk in complete silence with your thousand
| dollar audiophile over-the-ear headphones? I mean, I have such a
| setup too but it doesn't bother me much to listen to merely
| "high" quality Spotify if I were to walk around outside, as I
| wouldn't be able to tell the difference there.
| spondylosaurus wrote:
| Even sitting in complete silence with my (couple-hundred)
| dollar over-the-ear headphones, the High Quality streaming
| audio still sounds pretty damn good to me.
|
| One interesting counterpoint is that I have several albums that
| sound far better on vinyl than on any streaming platform, but
| that's a matter of audio _mixing_ rather than audio quality--
| whoever keeps doing "digital remasters" that have no low end
| whatsoever, you're killing me!
| LispSporks22 wrote:
| > Can people really tell the difference
|
| No, and neither can the audiophiles. Well, except those using
| oxygen free gold plated Ethernet cables.
| EverForever wrote:
| I can and I don't have gold-plated cables nor am I part of an
| audiophile community. The people who say you can't are worse
| than the audiophiles themselves, who I didn't even know
| before all the whining that there is no one in the world who
| can hear the difference. One guy had an audio test site and I
| did the one on my Chromebook with the Chromebook speakers and
| got 100%. I can definitely hear the difference between a real
| flac and mp3. The quality is not necessarily better but the
| highs go higher with flac. MP3s don't go that high, they're
| clipped and you can hear that. That's how you can, I can tell
| with songs. In addition, when I play the same song over
| bluetooth with my iPhone (Spotify, highest quality) and
| Walkman A55 (Flac) over a 300EUR sound system, even my father
| can hear the difference and he is 53 and worked his whole
| life in a factory. The statistics on the subject that I have
| read (from discussion links because I was perplex people said
| no one can hear a difference) clearly said that most people
| don't hear the difference, but that there are indeed people
| who can tell the difference!
| tayo42 wrote:
| Mp3 at what bit rate? 128 and flac might not be hard. 320
| I'm suspicious of the results
| thelastparadise wrote:
| Not to mention the double-compression if listening using
| bluetooth.
| thelastparadise wrote:
| Just like no one could possibly perceive over 60 FPS, right?
|
| I call BS.
| danpalmer wrote:
| I do hope not. I enjoy the lossless audio on Apple Music and
| don't really want my subscription price to double if they see
| Spotify charging a higher price for it.
| SkyPuncher wrote:
| Spotify seems to be doing everything they can to get in the way
| of listening to music.
|
| I'm getting very tired of popup screens at the most annoying of
| times.
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