| An interesting stance he's taking. Spotify, Google Play Music, and Rdio all stream at 320kbps MP3 or OGG, and Apple Music streams at 256kbps AAC (which is approximately the same quality as 320kbps MP3). [0][1] Yet, the vast majority of people cannot tell the difference between 256kbps MP3 and lossless, let alone between 320kbps MP3 and lossless (tested many times, for example: [2]). I'm not sure Neil has much of an argument to make here when it comes to audio quality, particularly for the use case of casual listening. [0]: http://www.theverge.com/2015/6/30/8863315/streaming-music-se... [1]: http://www.whathifi.com/news/apple-music-tracks-are-256kbps-... [2]: http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-great-mp3-bitrate-experimen... |