Welcome to the era of only Spotify Plays matter - let’s take a look at the underbelly of streaming scams affecting independent artists.

  • HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Same. In my younger days, I couldn’t really tell much difference between mp3 and CD. Now? I can absolutely tell.

    Yea, 320mp3 sounds close but if the music has a lot of very low or very high frequency music, mp3 seems to clip it off, even 320.

    Opus seems to handle the extreme ranges better though. But if you have an MP3, and convert it, it’s no better. Converting lossy to lossy is a no win outcome.

    • glorkon@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      Yep, converting lossy to a lossless format won’t magically bring back what was lost during the lossy compression.

      Changing from Spotify to Tidal absolutely makes sense if you’re sensible to these differences, because Spotify’s best possible quality basically equals Tidal’s worst (320 kbps lossless). Well, and Tidal’s max quality is 24bit 192 kHz FLAC.

      But boy, I wish I had these Hifiman headphones when my ears were still young and I could still enjoy the full frequency range of music.