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Re:Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algor... by mirrorlake on Friday May 17, 2019 @10:16AM (#19939803)
I had a similar experience last winter when I popped a CD into my desktop. Probably the first time I had heard music with a bitrate higher than Spotify’s 320kbps in a few years. Within a day I was off buying my favorite albums on FLAC and making a CD wishlist. Made me remember why I bought nice speakers in the first place.

And I’ve thought this for a while: With gigabit internet connections spreading, video streaming services that soak up bandwidth (10-20+ Mbps all day), WHY are companies stingy about audio bitrate? My connection can stream multiple 4K videos, yet audio is the same (or worse) bitrate than what I burned on CDs in 2003.

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Re:Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algor... by kingosticks on Friday May 17, 2019 @02:00PM (#19941999)
Tidal offer a "CD quality" 1411kbps option. I tried their trial but I honestly couldn't tell the difference vs Spotify when I got the other half to test me. And at twice the price I couldn't justify it. Perhaps that says more about my ears and my audio setup but that's just my findings.
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Re:Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algor... by criddell on Friday May 17, 2019 @11:06AM (#19940268)
I think the bitrate stingyness comes from the fact that people tend to watch Netflix at home over wired internet and they listen to streaming music over a more expensive wireless connection, often on crappy headphones.

There are higher bitrate services out there. Deezer will stream FLAC and there are probably others.

Where are you buying FLAC files from? For now I'm still happy with physical CDs although I have ripped them to ALAC. I'm not sure what the difference is, but when I scroll through my library on iTunes there's never anything I want to listen to, but if I look through my physical discs I always find something I want to put on.

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Re:Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algor... by mirrorlake on Friday May 17, 2019 @12:47PM (#19941308)
I like to get higher bitrate stuff from Bleep and Bandcamp.
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Re:Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algor... by kevin_thibedeau on Friday May 17, 2019 @02:25PM (#19942197)
I suspect most contemporary CDs are just uncompressed dumps of bitrate/band limited compressed audio.
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