Lossless Listening Arrives on Spotify Premium

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Spotify has announced the arrival of lossless listening on its Premium service, but users are debating the practical benefits and limitations of this feature, particularly on mobile devices.

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mouse_

4 months ago

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Yeah but your smartphone can't play it without resampling it, and last I checked, your Bluetooth headpods can't play it without reencoding it.

Lossless streaming is a marketing ploy that wastes resources for no reason. High bitrate opus is better for streaming.

patentatt

4 months ago

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I think there is value in having only one lossy encoding step on the way to my ears. And with all of the 4k video being streamed these days, lossless music bit rates are rather pedestrian, so I'm just not that concerned about the resources argument

ZeroGravitas

4 months ago

If the audio is AAC and the Bluetooth headphones support that codec, it won't be reencoded.

HelloUsername

4 months ago

> smartphone can't play it without resampling, and Bluetooth without reencoding

Straight from the article that you could've read:

"For the smoothest and best listening experience, we recommend streaming lossless music on Wi-Fi using wired headphones or speakers on a non-Bluetooth connection, like Spotify Connect. Currently, Bluetooth doesn’t provide enough bandwidth to transmit lossless audio, so the signal has to be compressed before being sent."

karmakaze

4 months ago

I keep my LG G8 around just to use its quad-DAC and wired headphones.

For wireless I have 2.4GHz earbuds using LC3 codec.

sudosysgen

4 months ago

AptX HD and LDAC at 990kbps are functionally lossless. AptX Lossless is, well, lossless.

eli_gottlieb

4 months ago

I mainly use Spotify for listening to music while I work, on a desktop or laptop, with a good headset rather than ear-buds.

basisword

4 months ago

Four years after it was announced, not as high quality as the competitors, no sign of Atmos. You can see why they couldn't justify charging more for it.

puszczyk

4 months ago

Finally Spotify adds a feature I look forward to

dtagames

4 months ago

The article says next month it will come to Sonos. That's ideal because those speakers are not Bluetooth; they're on your Wi-Fi.

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