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Re:Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio by hiq on Monday May 17, 2021 @01:09PM (#27185710)
> I am wondering if there is a market for an even cheaper Music Streaming Services that target lower quality, 128Kbps music.

If you control the client and are able to update it, I think you're better off switching to opus or similar.

96kbps opus is actually quite good for music already: https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Opus#Music_encod...

I guess the question then is whether there's a market for 48kbps opus music. But that'd be assuming that a big part of the costs are bandwidth. I'd bet that's not the case.

Also imagine how little traction you'd get once people associate your brand with poor music quality. I don't think you can compete by being 2€/month cheaper.

Re:Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio by krapht on Monday May 17, 2021 @05:22PM (#27188618)
Mobile data is quite expensive in many parts of the world. Quality is just one factor.