Spotify Spotify audio quality setting

[Burnside]

Soo many years later, and Spotify and Youtube Music - such a huge music services, cannot go beyond 320 / 16b ...

Which perhaps isn’t surprising when you consider what I’d guess to be their main market - younger listeners with mobile phones and earbuds.

 

[Valentino]

My main use of Spotify always was on the go, or checking things out just like in record shops way back when.
The actual reduction in sound quality with 320 kb/s OGG Vorbis versus lossless is not very large in blind comparisons. That said I prefer Qobus. Tidal is a bit iffy with their hidden MQA lossy music marketed as hires.

 

[harkpabst]

Tidal is a bit iffy with their hidden MQA lossy music marketed as hires.

Are you sure that the remaining MQA titles are really (still) tagged "hi-res" or "max" in the Tidal GUI?

I've come across titles shown as "16-bit 44.1kHz FLAC", which an enabled DAC shows as MQA. One example is e.g. O Superman by Laurie Anderson (and this applies to the entire album):

Laurie Anderson - O Superman

Listen to O Superman on your streaming service

tidal.com

This might trigger complaints, but at least it's "just" tabbed "high", not "hi-res".

 

[Valentino]

Not sure, and that is the problem. You see, I’m on of those who said «That's a scam, folks» from the early days of MQA. Iffy.

 

[MCG555]

My main use of Spotify always was on the go, or checking things out just like in record shops way back when.
The actual reduction in sound quality with 320 kb/s OGG Vorbis versus lossless is not very large in blind comparisons. That said I prefer Qobus. Tidal is a bit iffy with their hidden MQA lossy music marketed as hires.

I agree!