Petter1 comments on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK

[–] Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 1 year ago (11 children)

They will be blown away by the quality increase they get🤭

(Pirate tend to share/prefere best quality content, while Spotify offers only 256kbit mp3 as far as I remember (or is it 320kbi now?))

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[–] moody@lemmings.world 20 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Most people can't tell the difference between 128 kbit MP3 and high quality recordings.

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[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

most people

Many people are ok with hearing music out of a phone speaker. Audiophiles don't necessarily care about how "most people" perceive sound quality.

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[–] fuzzzerd@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Why is it the people that are ok listening to music out of a phone speaker are also the people ok polluting public spaces with music from phone speakers?

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[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Because they are dumb assholes? I grew up around folks who jury rigged speakers into the back of their trucks for camping and the worst they got was blaring freebird on the highway, it used to take work to be that guy now someone can just play some obnoxious trash in the restaurant with no work whatsoever.

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[–] moody@lemmings.world 3 points 1 year ago

That was my point. The comment I was replying to was suggesting that people switching from Spotify will be blown away by better quality audio. Most wouldn't notice a difference.

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[–] Waffle@infosec.pub 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Idk man. Show someone some cymbals on a 128kbps track and it sounds like someone crumpling a plastic bag via a tin can connected to a string. In contrast flac is going to sound much more natural.

I'd agree with you regarding 320 and flac - most people are gonna have a hard time differentiating.

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[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

most people are gonna have a hard time differentiating.

With the usual psychoacoustic model of MP3 if you can hear the difference between 320 MP3 and FLAC you are either lying or there's something wrong with your speakers. It's certain with long odds.

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[–] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

i didn't care about just grabbing the 720p 600mb video file back when i was watching on a little laptop screen.

it does not hold up on the big stuff.

kinda same applies to audio?

crap sounds like crap on a phone speaker, but so does hi quality stuff.

noise and low dynamics are more noticeable on more powerful, louder gear.

just spitballing here, not an expert!

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