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Why in tarnation do people use Spotify? (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by superglue_chute115@alien.top to c/headphones@hi-fi.community
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I don't understand why people buy these nice and expensive headphones only to use Spotify, arguably the worst quality music streaming service that exists. It sounds so bad compared to Apple Music, YouTube Music, Tidal, Deezer, or even Napster. At least you are getting lossless sound with those, it won't be the same as having a ripped flac from a CD but anything is better than the AAC 128/320kbps that Spotify offers. It just bothers me when I see photos of headphones on this sub and then they have Spotify open in the background, I just can't understand!

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[–] superglue_chute115@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

On Android, Windows, and Linux I played a song on Spotify, then played a song with Tidal (Cider for Apple Music didn't do lossless back then). I would pause and play on each and Tidal was just fuller sounding for every song I tested. Modern day Cider sounds better than Tidal now for some reason