Spotify Spotify music pro option is $6
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telecastermds`
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I just renewed my Amazon music. Was waiting for Spotify HiFi. The catalog is better than the rest and Connect is awesome. The app is also the easiest to use.
Sound quality we can all agree on is the main issue right now - which is likely to be addressed soon.
I can't understand how you can call the app "clunky". Between Qobuz, Tidal and Spotify, it is objectively the most fluid app experience of them all. I can't comment on Apple Music or Amazon.
Spotify connect is the most predictable and solid for me as well: it always picks up when I'm already playing on a different device and won't lose connection when I'm streaming to the Ultra. Tidal simply doesn't do the first thing for me and when streaming to the Ultra, sometimes I lose connection from my app (while the Ultra will keep on playing)
I can't understand how you can call the app "clunky". Between Qobuz, Tidal and Spotify, it is objectively the most fluid app experience of them all. I can't comment on Apple Music or Amazon.
Spotify connect is the most predictable and solid for me as well: it always picks up when I'm already playing on a different device and won't lose connection when I'm streaming to the Ultra. Tidal simply doesn't do the first thing for me and when streaming to the Ultra, sometimes I lose connection from my app (while the Ultra will keep on playing)
I could care less on feature being added all I want simple point click and connect. Being hardcore audiophile, sound quality is paramount than features. If Spotify offer better sound maybe better remastering over competition I would not mind paying extra. I want John Lennon imagine to give me goosebumps because it’s that good.
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Spotify is no longer what it was 10 years ago. With artificial ghost artists and ghost playlists, the company is saving millions in royalties. Spotify has developed a system that destroys smaller artists - even if I listen to these small ones, the money goes to the big ones. In the long run, it destroys creativity and I think that's already noticeable today. Take the time to do some research into their machinations.
Regardless of this, I really have to say that their app is now atrocious. I'm not 12 years old, spare me all this social media, TikTok, Ki crap. When I open their app, I now feel harassed. Yes, I let myself get carried away over Christmas and tested it again for three months via a homecoming offer. Horrible, highly disappointed.
I was right to test all the other providers a few years ago. I couldn't care less about Spotify - and paying more for it? I'll stick with Tidal, at most Qobuz could be an alternative if Connect is implemented.
Regardless of this, I really have to say that their app is now atrocious. I'm not 12 years old, spare me all this social media, TikTok, Ki crap. When I open their app, I now feel harassed. Yes, I let myself get carried away over Christmas and tested it again for three months via a homecoming offer. Horrible, highly disappointed.
I was right to test all the other providers a few years ago. I couldn't care less about Spotify - and paying more for it? I'll stick with Tidal, at most Qobuz could be an alternative if Connect is implemented.
I was hesitant when I first heard of Spotify, but after several years, even at current hi-res, I think it sounds great and the software is extremely stable and easy to customize to your tastes and share playlists. I was a big fan of Ogg Vorbis when everyone else was MP3, so they seem to both give a sh*t and know what they are doing from end user experience perspective. Now as far the content creators (artists) perspectives, that sounds like a different story unfortunately...
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Has anyone noticed spotify is streaming through WiiM at 900 kbps in 16 bit/44.1 khz? Perhaps they have already soft launched FLAC? Weird that it is a fixed bitrate whereas redbook FLAC on Tidal is a variable bit rate.
hgo58
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How do you see that? Neither Spotify app nor WiiM Home App shows bit rates.
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Voila.....garretwnagle
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I'm looking at the WiiM App device status screen, on a WiiM Mini connected to a spotify discovery playlist
hgo58
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From the icon on the top I can see that it's not Spotify Connect.
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I guess its Airplay
hgo58
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Yes, probably. I don't know how that icon look.I guess its Airplay
So the bit rate showing is probably what the phone is sending via AirPlay?
If streaming directly from Spotify (Connect) no bit rate is shown.
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The "guess" was wrong
It is Airplay 2.
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spotify does not use mp3, unless you use the term as a synonym for lossy.
Fixed
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But isn't it incredibly nice that they wrap such not so good things? At least attractively like a gift with a pretty ribbon.
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This.
It's shockingly shonky as an app. It just about holds together but is flimsy and tends to fall over / freeze.
They need a ground up rewrite
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