it’s the social features and the network effect. if you want to make a playlist and share it with your friends the easiest way to get them to listen to it is to host it on spotify. also blends, collaborative playlist, jams, and now listening all provide the illusion of connection through a shared listening experience. and it’s not so much that these things are better than what we used to have for sharing music, it’s that corporations have all killed our ways of sharing music. that’s what they really hated about groove shark. artists made more money in the groove shark era, but umg, sony, and warner didn’t control how we shared on it.
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JWBananas@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoClearly most people care more about other factors than they do about audio quality that isn’t even discernable through their Bluetooth earbuds.
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Psythik@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Yeah seriously; unless you’re an audiophile who spends extra on quality headphones, your Bluetooth buds are probably using the SBC codec, which cuts off frequencies at 16kHz and thus is hardly better than listening to a 128Kbps MP3. (In Android you can see what codec your headphones are using by going into the developer options.)
And to be honest, if you care enough about sound quality to spend extra on the high res tier in your streaming service of choice, you’re probably using wired headphones. Audiophiles don’t fuck with Bluetooth.
aubertlone@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Ldac only for me.
Nah I have a few different ones and aptx adaptive is pretty solid.
It’s funny because it wasn’t until I started producing music and driving samples that I realized 320kbps mp3 IS NOT the same nor is it comparable to lossless audio
As for the whole “audiophile” thing I don’t even know what to make of that.
steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Just switched from iPhone to Android. If your Bluetooth headphones support aptx you can definitely hear the difference
Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
Just the other day I was listening to the new Linkin Park album on Spotify in a car with a friend (no fancy speaker system)
We both thought it sounded kinda low quality so we switched to youtube and the improvement was instantly noticable to us. Spotify just sucks. At least if you are used to HQ audio
JWBananas@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Happened to me too with the same album. Then I remembered I hadn’t configured the audio quality after switching to a new phone. So I did that, and then it was fine.
Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
Hm could be that. Though vaguely remember he checked the Spotify quality setting before going on Youtube
GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
It’s actually worse than lossless being discernable or not - people cannot reliably tell between high-quality compressed audio and lossless audio. This has been studied to oblivion - the jury is out, there’s no more discussion to be had on the subject.
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
i dumped spotify because they raised the price so they could include podcasts that i couldn’t give less of a rat’s ass about. also the ai bullshit and the refusal to allow me to block artists. spotify can get fucked
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Streaming sites not including the option to block content is frustrating.
I remember when Netflix let you hide individual movies so they didn’t clutter up the categories. When it was removed there was a rumor that giving it a low score would hide it but that never worked for me. Don’t even remember the other services offering an option to hide stuff.
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 5 weeks ago
You can still do that on YouTube.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I don’t think of youtube as a streaming site for some reason. Maybe because I only interact with it on a computer and the others through TVs even though everything can go through both.
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I never moved from pandora to Spotify and could never find a good reason to.
I realize I’m a decade out of the loop, but what did it do better?
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
i never used pandora–is it true you can’t make your own playlists? that would be a no go for me. i switched to tidal and have no complaints
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Pandora was initially antithetical to playlists, the concept was utilizing the music genome project to play songs that are like songs you’ve like.
Playlists probably was the thing Spotify had that pandora didn’t have that made Spotify get big, you can make playlists now.
I only use pandora because it’s music discovery is so good tbh.
Vespair@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
I’m so confused, I’m a Spotify user and there are multiple artists I’ve selected “don’t play this artist” on that Spotify blocks for me; it won’t even play those artists when I click playlists including them.