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Post by MikeMusic on Jan 14, 2018 13:53:40 GMT
From what I read Spotty is going the same way as the big corporates. Helps having a large majority of the market. Matey's background doesn't look good.
Indie record labels, self released and places where the artists have control is another way I'd like to see growing.
Be good to see a change away from money centric focus. If only.
The Spotty service ? Yes. Seems good and getting better.
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Post by MartinT on Jan 14, 2018 14:07:58 GMT
Just pragmatism, Tim. There is plenty of documented bad behaviour by record companies and I am not surprised to see Spotify go the same way. Over-paid suits who don't care about music, as you say. I'd love to see them clean up their act. I simply don't want to see musicians lose out by making knee-jerk reactions and bringing them down. The resulting industry fall-out will not be better for us.
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Post by Tim on Jan 14, 2018 16:17:34 GMT
I simply don't want to see musicians lose out by making knee-jerk reactions and bringing them down. The resulting industry fall-out will not be better for us.I'm going to ponder that, as I'm not sure I totally agree. My initial thoughts being it could level the playing field in favour of lesser known artists and penalise the likes of Ed Sheeren, Coldplay and Adele, i.e. the top money makers and really damage the corporate suits. Music IMO would survive, it might not be pretty, but it wouldn't kill it.
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Post by rfan8312 on Jan 15, 2018 4:39:28 GMT
I adore the Spotify app, in fact it's changed my musical tastes, a music lover since birth, yet have always had the feeling that the company is not quite on the up and up.
1. I've never interacted with any kind of Spotify customer service of any kind. I've tried and have never had an email returned. Could not find a phone number to call. As far as I know they have an address somewhere in upstate New York.
Having said that, I can't claim that's its not for the best. Maybe they foresaw that any kind of interaction with customers would be pointless time consuming nagging. The product seems good enough to garantee them subscriptions no matter what.
God knows what they are up to but so far I've heard few complaints. I've had one or two odd billing incidents about 2 years ago, yet I'm still a subscriber.
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Post by MartinT on Jan 15, 2018 6:47:10 GMT
Their support is non-existent but the various forums helped when I had a problem with Spotify going into secure mode at work (firewall issue) and not rendering any album artwork. Tricky to pinpoint but easy to fix.
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Post by rfan8312 on Jan 16, 2018 2:58:14 GMT
Ye, true.
I was wondering why does Amazon Music (streaming service exactly like Spotify) recieve no recognition?
I only hear of Spotify vs. Tidal.
I've had Tidal I found the playlist functions lacking, and the app lacking certain features that Spotify does have. And the sound quality was better but not unbelievably better imo. Unless I'm mistaken about a setting that I missed.
Amazon has what sounds like twice the information in the tracks than Spotify does. They are more present and dynamic. Switching from Spotify to Amazon with the same track sounds like the volume was turned up and another DAC was added.
But, Spotify is the most satisfying to use imo, with the best features.
I actually do my searching and discovering on Spotify and then go listen on Amazon.
Has anyone else used Amazon Music streaming?
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Post by MartinT on Jan 16, 2018 5:58:40 GMT
Are you using Spotify Premium in high-bitrate mode?
My experience of Amazon Music is only of the downloadable mp3 files from albums that I've purchased. They mostly sound a bit lacking to me and not very dynamic.
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Post by Tim on Jan 16, 2018 12:13:14 GMT
I was wondering why does Amazon Music (streaming service exactly like Spotify) recieve no recognition? Simple answer is that it isn't as good, as far as I know you can't easily control it remotely like Spotify Connect, but the no brainier is sound quality, it doesn't sound as good. Amazon is (or was the last time I checked) 256kbps .mp3 and Spotify .ogg at 320kbps. The difference to me isn't subtle on my music server. I'm a Spotify Premium user and as Martin says, you need to stream at the higher bitrate, which is selectable in Preferences.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2018 13:37:11 GMT
Damn, I didn't realise that our Spotify was a freebie with my wife's Vodafone mobile account, so as she changed over to Sky mobile yesterday, we have lost access to the premium version of Spotify ... think I will have to sign up.
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Post by rfan8312 on Jan 16, 2018 14:28:38 GMT
Thanks guys. I did now set Spotify to Extreme quality. I had it set to automatic, on a new device that I've just started using I thought I had set it previously on my old device.
I hope this works because it's a hassle going from Spotify to Amazon Music Streaming. But the change was not subtle Amazon just sounded that much better. If this works then Spotify would be the ultimate app for me.
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Post by MartinT on Jan 16, 2018 14:33:13 GMT
Thanks guys. I did now set Spotify to Extreme quality. That sounds like a setting on an app rather than the Spotify interface. I've just checked and it's called High quality streaming (Premium only). You must have a Premium account for it to work. The freebie account is pointless for the purposes of this discussion.
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Post by rfan8312 on Jan 16, 2018 17:06:51 GMT
Ok thanks. I do have premium. I'll keep looking. Did not find it. But it's worth it to get this figured out.
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Post by John on Jan 16, 2018 19:07:33 GMT
go into settings you will see music quality cursor should be moved to the right
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Post by rfan8312 on Jan 16, 2018 20:15:57 GMT
drive.google.com/file/d/1qdObTfK5u-c27Jh-eNwaBndSzknjDE_M/view?usp=drivesdkOk hopefully that link works it's a screenshot of what I see in my settings. I don't have a slider it's just a multiple choice of quality types. Mine is on extreme quality. For some reason I have so.ething called Stranger Things Mode activated. And Waze Mode activated. My version of Spotify is 8.4.35.152 armV7
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Post by The Brookmeister on Jan 16, 2018 20:39:32 GMT
Its not gonna do MQA I read somewhere so if that's your bag Tidal is better.
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Post by rfan8312 on Jan 18, 2018 20:15:43 GMT
Well,I did just start leasing an LG v30 phone. This phone has a quad dac in the headphone jack. It really sounds amazing and it's set up for MQA. I'm thinking of giving Tidal another shot.
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Post by MartinT on Jan 18, 2018 21:45:02 GMT
Mine is on extreme quality My apologies, I've never seen that setting before. Android? In all other interfaces I've seen it's 'High quality' or 'High bitrate'.
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Post by rfan8312 on Jan 18, 2018 22:03:48 GMT
Yes sir. Apologies I didn't follow up,when I did raise it to extreme quality I think it brought it up to Amazon Music quality.
But I only heard it on a speaker will edit this post later after results with headphones.
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Post by Stratmangler on Jan 18, 2018 22:13:44 GMT
Mine is on extreme quality. The same setting shows up in LMS (what I control my Squeezeboxes with).
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Post by MikeMusic on Feb 10, 2018 14:25:07 GMT
Why does Spotty only play one track at a time.
In Volumio I browse Spotty and select the *album* Send to play. Plays first track. Stops If I want all the tracks I have to click each one Checked what I did and tried again. Same thing.
Spotty, Volumio, me or technology ?
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