![]() ![]() SPOTIFY HIFI AUSTRALIA DOWNLOADI still shudder when thinking about the early digital download days where everyone put up with such crappy compression rates. ![]() No doubt spurred by the Walkman (and being able to be selective about which music you put on a tape).Ī similar, though not as massive, trajectory was had with digital downloads (and mp3 players) for essentially the same reasons. I'm always amazed at how popular cassettes actually were for quite a while! Most Spotify subscribers are totally happy with Connect. I truly hope I am wrong about this, but I figure those of us with a local music collection are a small minority in the Spotify user base - and Roon users account for a small minority of us. With a setup like this, Roon could not perform its cataloging and metadata magic on your Spotify library. The best you can hope for with other players is a trigger in the native app that bounces you out to the standalone Spotify Connect app. Spotify's goal is to present the same interface across all platforms and to keep your music playing as you move from device to device. I then needed to bounce back and forth between 2 interfaces to access my local and internet music.Īt that point I dropped Spotify and switched to Tidal, which still has a plugin that runs in the BluOS interface.So, I don't see Spotify creating another non-Connect portal into their system. SPOTIFY HIFI AUSTRALIA INSTALLBluesound was able to install Connect on the Node 2, but it runs as a separate app. Then Spotify discontinued support for any interface except Spotify Connect. I then purchased a Bluesound Node 2, which had a fully integrated Spotify app that tapped into all the important functionality. One of the user-community support people patched together a plugin that tapped into the Spotify web interface, but it did not support all features and had limitations that made it unsuitable for my needs. Squeezebox could not run the Spotify Connect app so that wasn't an option. Then Spotify stopped supporting the access method that the Squeezebox plugin used. The interface was great, as was the music selection. Used it as an integrated plugin on my Squeezebox Touch. I wouldn't count on Spotify being integrated into other players any time soon. Qobuz, I'm guessing you guys will never show up here in Canada? I do hope Roon is able to do something with Spotify or Amazon HD given the limited options in a number of markets like Canada.Īlso recently I saw this graphic of music sales from 1980 to 2020 (based on RIAA data if you want to see the details): Personally, I cannot support Tidal for obvious reasons (I see it was recently bought by Square, Jack Dorsey of Twitter fame). This also will put some pressure on Roon I think given that it also runs on a subscription model (unless one were to buy the lifetime license) to expand integration if many subscribers use it for Tidal. ![]() With Spotify Premium lossy currently at $10/month (same price here in Canadian dollars), if they can target that $15/month spot with the HiFi tier if not even undercut that price, the name recognition and user interface quality I bet will win over many Tidal subscribers. I think Tidal HiFi especially is in a difficult spot at this point with a US$20/month price point and pseudo-hi-res MQA especially when Qobuz Studio is already down at US$15/month with true hi-res bitrate content on offer. The lack of any mention of hi-res suggests it won't. Personally it generally doesn't matter to me especially for streaming so long as they don't waste time and money with the MQA nonsense which they'll never get back -). Who knows at this point if Spotify will bother with "hi-res" content beyond 16/44.1. ![]() However, even if just a few percent are interested, we're still looking at millions of subscribers! How many subscribers actually demand Spotify HiFi among its >140M worldwide subscribers will be interesting. I am mindful of the likelihood that high-bitrate lossy is good enough for the vast majority of music lovers. It's about time! Finally with another of the "whales" ( Amazon Music HD and now Spotify) in the lossless 16/44.1 club, Apple must be considering their future plans as well if they see significant consumer demand for the higher tier. The big news in audio a couple weeks back was the announcement of a Spotify HiFi lossless service in the months ahead. ![]()
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