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Re:Spotify vs. Apple Music Review – 2022 Edition by randomguy12 on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @12:18AM (#32920764)
It's worth asking, sometimes people miss the obvious
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Re:Spotify vs. Apple Music Review – 2022 Edition by null_object on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @12:43AM (#32920872)
> sometimes people miss the obvious

I agree. But one of my (many) bugbears with Spotify is the poor audio quality of their ‘best’ setting.

I haven’t tried Apple Music, but if Apple allowed access to their uncompressed stream through an API (currently only via AirPlay) to devices like my BlueSound Node then I would switch straight away.

Compared to CD, the best streaming quality from Spotify is pretty abysmal.

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Re:Spotify vs. Apple Music Review – 2022 Edition by user_named on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @12:59AM (#32920956)
It's also highly questionable if anyone complaining about the audio quality would do that in an AB test. See gold plated cables etc.
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