Poll: Music Streaming Debate

[JasonM]

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I've listened to a system with Quantum Science Yellows, but not those.

 

[mattyfez]

I've listened to a system with Quantum Science Yellows, but not those.

You don't know what you're missing... A poor quality fuse vails the output. A bit like driving with a dirty windscreen... You don't know how good it is until you can see more clearly.

 

[CAPTAINBUMFLUFF]

Does anyone know how apple music compares to youtube music in terms of sound quality? Thinking of making the switch. I listen to music on both my mac and iphone.

 

[Andybtsn]

Does anyone know how apple music compares to youtube music in terms of sound quality? Thinking of making the switch. I listen to music on both my mac and iphone.

Apple offers lossless so better quality absolutely.

 

[dazza13]

I only really use Amazon prime Music as i get free and only really listen to old stuff like GnR and Queen so most of it is on there.

 

[mattyfez]

Streamimng is a last resort, Solid state baby!

 

[TheVoice]

I use Spotify Free, and spend the money saved on Bandcamp instead so the artists actually get paid.

 

[spile]

I stream music from my NAS so not sure how to answer the poll…

 

[PapaLazaru]

Tried them all but always go back to Spotify Premium. The lack of high-res is a tad annoying but the back catalogue is unsurpassed, especially for older English dance misuc.

 

[marinersfan]

I rarely listen to music when I'm not in the car. If I do I just fire up Youtube. In the car I have a 32gb usb stick, and sometimes listen to Planet Rock.
Pretty boring, I know.

 

[Major774]

Tried them all but always go back to Spotify Premium. The lack of high-res is a tad annoying but the back catalogue is unsurpassed, especially for older English dance misuc.

So did I… The catalogue is so much better.

But I did enjoy the nice high res music during my free trial with Apple.

 

[XeNoNF50]

Apple offers lossless so better quality absolutely.

Do they offer it on the desktop app now? Last time I checked they didn't. Still their lossy is better than Youtube Music's lossy.

 

[Andybtsn]

Do they offer it on the desktop app now? Last time I checked they didn't. Still their lossy is better than Youtube Music's lossy.

They do yeah. Recent update enabled it. Think the windows app still in preview but it’s reliable enough. I use it every day

 

[XeNoNF50]

They do yeah. Recent update enabled it. Think the windows app still in preview but it’s reliable enough. I use it every day

Fair enough. Been a while since I tried other services. Still happy with my Qobuz + Roon (+ Roon ARC when remote) combo.

 

[Ayahuasca]

Spotify's hifi service "supremium" apparently isn't far off now, not sure I'll switch back to them though.

 

[Kol]

YouTube Music, but I do miss the recommendations/discover that Spotify offers. Rarely does YouTube Music seem to recommend music that’s actually any good, whereas the algorithm that Spotify has seems to offer up some great recommendations based on my listens/history.

 

[BananaDunka]

Youtube music also messes up your playlists and stuff I read, so if you use youtube for visual content and have playlists and feed recs etc working all nice, adding youtube music into the mix could make things confusing.

Either way, Spotify's algos are just superior.

 

[Kol]

This is true. It does. Why they can’t be entirely separate, who knows. I followed a band on YTM and it showed me as subscribed on YouTube proper too, which meant anything they posted to their channel appeared in my subs section. Mildly frustrating.

 

[BananaDunka]

Yup it's why I instantly sacked off the idea of youtube music, even though I'm on Premium for 94p a month. There's no way I'm messing up my homepage feeds, playlists and channel subscriptions etc.

 

[DataVampire]

They do yeah. Recent update enabled it. Think the windows app still in preview but it’s reliable enough. I use it every day

How do you enable that please?