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I've started noticing there's a significant difference between stream-quality music and FLAC. Dunno why I didn't use to notice. It's obvious now. Sigh. Another new personal QOL standard to follow. Now I'll "have to" download FLACs instead of just quickly opening Spotify, if I'm gonna spend more than a few minutes enjoying music.
According to their audio quality page, the free Spotify web player streams at 128kbps (which used to be standard bootleg-MP3 quality back in the day, although with those I could still hear compression artifacts), while the free mobile player by default auto-adjusts in a range from 160kbps "High" (where I can't hear compression artifacts in MP3s, but I'd bet others can) to 96kbps "Normal" (which would be awful for MP3; is it tolerable for AAC?) to 24kbps "Low" (presumably they mean this in the moral sense rather than just the numeric sense). Their Premium plan has 320kbps (at which even MP3s weren't humanly distinguishable from original CD audio) and FLAC options for mobile, though, and even 256kbps for the Premium web player ought to be good enough.
They won't let me turn up the quality without downloading their desktop app. I'd rather not. Not letting me enjoy the Premium benefits in my browser is BS.
That's funny. I insisted to my IT that they user their admin privilege to install the desktop app so I wouldn't have to use the browser-based!
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