ImpossibleResource68 t1_iu54ful wrote on October 28, 2022 at 4:50 PM

Reply to comment by L-ROX1972 in Honest question, did we hit peak headphone a while back? by Yammy_Lyfe

Do you think apple and spotifys quest for all lossless audio will change this?

L-ROX1972 t1_iu56boj wrote on October 28, 2022 at 5:02 PM

Nope, not at all; I see them (major record labels & distributors) continuing to push for proprietary file types and digital snakeoil (upsampling).

The quest for having the best-sounding albums is non-existent (simply because that would cost more and take more time to accomplish).

Nadeoki t1_iu6omfm wrote on October 28, 2022 at 11:28 PM

Deezer, tidal and qobuz already exist for that. Yet they use 16/44.1 and some releases are compressed for the Loudness war's sake.

Spotify is also definitely not moving to Lossless anytime soon.
They have no reason to, most people who use it, do so for the Algorithm and the ease of access. Those that care about the quality aspect have already switched or use something besides it for actual playback. That being said, I hope they consider at least flac 24/48 at some point in the future.

If Deezer can optimize their recommendations and add a bigger catalogue, they might be more competitive and therefore force Spotify to up their game.

ImpossibleResource68 t1_iu6pjn6 wrote on October 28, 2022 at 11:36 PM

I think apple is pushing Spotify with their lossless for free. From what I’ve ready Spotify are having licensing issues with it at the moment and that’s the only thing holding it up. The announced it 2 years ago now.

Nadeoki t1_iu6t6xn wrote on October 29, 2022 at 12:06 AM

Flac is an open source project with no licensing fees or royalties so either you mean it just costs more to get Tracks in flac from Production Companies or they're having trouble acquiring the Storage Facilities needed to store the significant increase in size of their 90+ million track library. Not all of which even exist in flac.