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[–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

Only issue is that qobuz has a relatively tiny lossless English library from my experience compared to other streaming services

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    That doesn’t sound right. I just checked my library of over 1k songs and the only non-16 bit/44.1 was a 320kbps live recording from a niche band. Everything else was lossless CD quality. Are you sure you don’t mean HiRes 24 bit better than CD? Because only 10 percent of my fairly eclectic library on Qobuz is 24 bit, while on tidal is was around 15 percent. Oddly enough listening to the same track in hires on both services definitely has a slightly different sound, which makes no sense to me as a non audio engineer.

    Or maybe I don’t understand the term for lossy vs lossless?

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago*

    I mostly mean that when transferring a large playlist from something like Spotify it can become very noticeable how many songs are completely missing from the platform

    The statistics are 2 years old but out of 40k songs it went something like this

    Deezer: 259 tracks missing

    Apple Music: 529 tracks missing

    Tidal: 672 tracks missing

    Qobuz: 2572 tracks missing

    At least for me personally Apple Music had all my Spotify tracks in lossless while Tidal was a close 2nd where qobuz was straight up missing multiple artists, I have not tried deezer yet but I plan to later this month.

    As long as it is volume matched and the track is at least cd quality then it should all sound the same as lossless is lossless assuming you can’t hear above 22khz (although on all the platforms it is not that uncommon for artists to upload fake lossless files)

    Lossy however is a mess with how every codec can sound different at different bitrates and it is a fairly deep rabbit hole you can fall into, even with something like AAC there are multiple types that all sound different, AAC-LC, FDK-AAC, QuickTime-AAC etc.

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