Spotify Lossless - finally here
Discussion
I've been checking daily for Spotify Lossless and it arrived today.
First up some Floyd, LCD Soundsystem and Donald Fagan on my home setup; that's streamed though a Chromecast Audio which, happily, supports the new format.
Next was my phone (Galaxy S24) and buds (Galaxy Pro 2). I was happy to see the bitrate was also supported, across BT this time.
Obviously I knew it would work with my phone pus my wired Flare E Prototype in ear monitors; this is what I used to try out Tidal a couple of years ago. And it sounds excellent.
My final test will be on the Integrated Automotive system in my car - I expect that should be fine.
TL;DR it's not the ultimate format but it's free to me and I'm more than happy to finally have higher quality.
First up some Floyd, LCD Soundsystem and Donald Fagan on my home setup; that's streamed though a Chromecast Audio which, happily, supports the new format.
Next was my phone (Galaxy S24) and buds (Galaxy Pro 2). I was happy to see the bitrate was also supported, across BT this time.
Obviously I knew it would work with my phone pus my wired Flare E Prototype in ear monitors; this is what I used to try out Tidal a couple of years ago. And it sounds excellent.
My final test will be on the Integrated Automotive system in my car - I expect that should be fine.
TL;DR it's not the ultimate format but it's free to me and I'm more than happy to finally have higher quality.
cookie1600 said:
I've finally got it too and having set it up, I reached for my trusty B & W 15D's' and test drove the extended version of Saltwater. Brilliant!
Nice. I have Monitor Audio Golds. Just tried the car system quickly; lossless is also supported in there, another free upgrade.
I really wanted Tidal as soon as I tried it but didn't want to pay twice and have downloads and playlists split across two platforms.
The only annoying thing is that I can't see how to convert my existing downloaded playlists over. Hmmm....
S100HP said:
I'm impressed. Bose headphones and speakers here and can certainly hear an improvement. Everything just has more depth. It's all richer in sound. Am impressed.
Yeah, there's just so much more detail. In the car, I also have a hard drive and a memory card, both loaded with CD quality lossless stuff I bought before moving over to streaming. The drop in quality between that and the same stuff on Spotify always narked me. But Spotify won beacuse of its pure convenience, Now I have the best of both worlds.paw270 said:
Has it been auto enabled? I had a prompt a couple of weeks ago saying it was coming but haven t seen anything since.
Yes. It just appears as an additional option in the audio quality menu. One day it's not there, the next day it is. I guess they're staging the rollout?One thing I immediately noticed was the impact on my phone storage; I converted most of my main downloads to lossless and immediately used an additional 10Gb of space. I think the file size is about 20x larger.
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