I have some misgivings about this idea . I do love my lossles flac files for archiving my own discs and local content and music bought elsewhere , Great lossless and free can be kept in pristine quality forever transcoded to new formats forever , my grandchildren can inherit the files.
But for streaming it makes less sense . As you dont need to archive perfect copies you only listen to rented tracks in the moment OK ? It is a proven fact (no ifs and buts about it its tested to death) that is extremely unlikely that a human can distinguish a good lossy decoding say 320kBps lame encoded mp3 from the lossles source . So why stream lossles ? A suspicion , I've had varied results in the past with lossy from a -streaming service- in this case spotify premium but mostly they sound very good to me but not always. But they may not make the best effort here . So even if a lossy streaming service could be sonically transparent they may not always be that ? Lack of quality control some obscure works may not even be in the advertised high bitrate , bad decoder settings at their end to save cpu power who knows why. Some services even introduce weird volume levelling schemes that does not help either . Spotify does that , I dont know if it can be turned of in any normal app , you can with triodes spotify app btw (which is very good imo ) . Then they makes this new service that cost 2 or 3 times more , that basically offers what they already should be delivering in their normal service :/ *sigh* Namely if they get their act together and take more care with the decoding offer sensible settings re volume normalisation and use the replaygain system instead of mangling the audio, their normal service would be sonically transparent to human listeners without needing to be lossles ! But now all incentive to actually improve on the lossy services have gone out of the window when the fate based customers are prepared to fork out even more money for what they already should have, great (not) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (in storage SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102351
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