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Re:Ask HN: How is the Spotify app so bad? by threeseed on Sunday March 24, 2024 @01:09AM (#39805277)
Spotify has significantly worse quality than Apple Music.

So that could be one reason it takes longer to buffer.

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Re:Ask HN: How is the Spotify app so bad? by boxed on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @02:51AM (#39836284)
Citation needed. This sounds like audiophile craziness. https://support.spotify.com/us/article/audio-quality/

256b/s AAC is well enough for it to be indistinguishable from lossless.

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