I use spotify more as a music discovery platform. If I really like an album i’ll download the best version of it.
Same, Spotify is best for music discovery, once I find things I enjoy I buy an offline version and host it on my jellyfin instance
Apple Music has already been offering Hi-Res lossless audio for years at no extra cost. They also don’t pay tens of millions of dollars to anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists and shove them in my face.
I’m not sure what Spotify’s plan is here, charging more for something that is the same or worse than what I already have.
Meanwhile tidal already has better quality at the same price.
MQA is literal garbage, so no, Tidal doesn’t.
Qobuz and Deezer do however.
What is MQA?
Tidal proprietary lossy codec, that they advertized as lossless.
It’s been a long time since the MQA controversy but I remember this was a great video on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRjsu9-Vznc
IIRC Tidal basically applies subjective post-processing onto the lossless files and pretends they sound better.
Snake oil at best.
I wanted to like tidal, but song suggestions and the search didn’t cut it for me after using it for 4 months. Other than that, quality is superb and very affordable!
and integrates with Plex, so I can self host my own high quality library and truly use tidal as an exploring platform
Really!? That’s interesting.
That’s been my whole hangup so far is finding an easy, unified way to play my files either from devices at home or from the phone while I’m on the go, and still have Playlists and metrics all associated.
But I hate plex though
I guess the audiophiles can enjoy that if they’re willing to pay whatever ridiculous price it’s going to be, meanwhile a lot of us are just enjoying our music on our average relatively crappy headphones/other devices and would get little benefit from hifi anyway.
