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Why in tarnation do people use Spotify? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months 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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[–] El-Rocha@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (5 children)

It sounds so bad compared to Apple Music, YouTube Music, Tidal, Deezer, or even Napster.

First off, Youtube Music only does up to 256kbps AAC, which is similiar in quality to Spotify's Ogg/Vorbis 320kbps.

Secondly, if you're on android, for example, and are not using Tidal or USB Audio Player PRO with Deezer or Qobyz, you're never getting true lossless because everything is being resampled to 48 000 Hz.

Also, not everybody can hear the difference between mp3 320kbps and lossless, but everybody can hear good equipment vs bad equipment on either format. Just because people aren't going endgame extracting everything the human senses can catch from sound waves doesn't mean they're dumb or wasting money.

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