[circa]

I made the switch last September from Spotify back to Apple Music.

1 reason and 1 reason only. Lossless. Why Spotify still doesn't offer this as an option is beyond me. I get that its a small amount of people who care but still why not offer it? I would pay a little more to use their service.

[DashAnimal]

You know, I used to care about lossless but more and more the proof has been stacking on that MP3 compression is an amazing technology and I just don't have the ears to discern. I would love to know how you do in this test: https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2015/06/02/411473508/...

For me, it was enough to prove that lossy is good enough for everyday listening.

[felix318]

That was interesting. I listen mostly to classical and had no trouble whatsoever with the Mozart track, the difference was clear. The other tracks I was forced to guess and, strangely, got all wrong answers!

Compressed classical music annoys me to no end, although for a long time I couldn’t tell why. Then I found out, the problem is the artifacts, which you may not be aware of but they do affect your emotional response.

This page has an amazing description of the issues: https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/what-data-compressio...

[criddell]

I've been trying to use Apple Music with their web client and it's astonishingly slow. I can't understand how it could be so bad.

[salamandersauce]

Yeah it's not good. I've only used a handful of times and every single time it just stopped playing in the middle of a song for no reason. It also sucks that they can't be bothered to create apps for anything other than their own stuff and Android. I can use Amazon music or Spoify with my Garmin Watch but not Apple Music.

[criddell]

I think you can still use iTunes on Windows.

[speedgoose]

Do you notice the difference between lossless and 320kbits/s ogg vorbis ?