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Re:Spotify announces HiFi, a lossless streaming tier coming ... by Mindless2112 on Monday February 22, 2021 @01:28PM (#26228242)
Nyquist is about sample rate and frequency, not bitrate and frequency.

Edit: Clearly there is generally a relationship between bitrate and quality, but for compressed audio it is far from "cut and dry".

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Re:Spotify announces HiFi, a lossless streaming tier coming ... by gltchkrft on Monday February 22, 2021 @01:31PM (#26228319)
Bitrate is just samplerate * bit depth. For 44100 and 32 bit float you have 1411200 bit per second.
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Re:Spotify announces HiFi, a lossless streaming tier coming ... by teilo on Monday February 22, 2021 @07:17PM (#26232401)
That's only true for uncompressed audio.
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