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atmosxlast Tuesday at 9:13 PM3 repliesview on HN

Tidal has smaller library but higher quality (assuming your speakers allow you to tell the difference).


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kwanbixlast Tuesday at 10:54 PM

I doubt you can listen to the difference, unless you really have golden ears.

We have been doing double blind test in HydrogenAudio.org for a while, and it shows most people won't notice (at certain levels of encoding).

https://hydrogenaudio.org/index.php/board,40.0.html

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nomellast Tuesday at 9:22 PM

Spotify lossless support was added last year [1].

[1] https://newsroom.spotify.com/2025-09-10/lossless-listening-a...

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acureaulast Tuesday at 9:21 PM

Actually Spotify finally introduced lossless quality, after teasing it for something like five years!