jistme wrote: > My primary intention was not that I wanted to use flac or pcm. > The objective was to have the unaltered sound quality just as Spotify > streams it. > > So I was looking for some 'untouched' or 'pass-through' setting in > Spotty. > But that is not there. > > Then I thought to use flac, since that wouldn't deteriorate the sound of > the original stream. > But I couldn't find a 'use flac' selection either. > > Only a choice between 96/160/320, which to me seemed like some mp3 > re-encoding. > Then I got confused (even more) since it is mentioned in the threads > here that Spotify/Spotty uses ogg, but I found on Spotify's website that > they use aac. (with 256 kbps as the highest quality) > So that suggested to me some re-encoding was going on here with these > 96/160/320 settings. > > > But I think by now I understand what is going on. > > - In Spotty, 96/160/320 are not actual bitrates. > - Spotify offers three different stream qualities: Normal, High, Very > High. > - In Spotty you can select which of these streams you want to 'receive'. > > So, neither of these three settings perform any re-encoding, and ogg, > mp3, flac, pcm have nothing to do with this at all. > (please correct me if I am wrong about this though) > > If my assumptions here are correct, I humbly suggest that Spotty's audio > quality menu gets a minor renaming that clarifies this a bit better and > also uses the exact same naming as Spotify does: > > > Spotify streaming quality: > > Normal (approx. 96kbps) > High (approx. 160kbps) > Very High (approx. 320kbps) > > > Thanks everybody for the help!Ogg Vorbis is untouched as Spotify streams it.
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