What Music Streaming Service do you use

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  • honestaquarian
    honestaquarian Posts: 3,196
    I loves me some Tidal HiFi since I get it for free with my Sprint subscription. I also still love physical media. Nothing beats a Blu-Ray when it comes to movies and you cannot stream DSD when it comes to music (yet)
    That is the whole reason for MQA’s existence. I have listened back to back to a DSD file and an MQA file of the same tracks and been hard pressed to tell the difference on my Oppo. Even after I did the upgrades.
    Tidal last last year added thousands of MQA titles and I am loving it!!
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  • guyincognito
    guyincognito Posts: 129
    I have a blusound node 2i and a benchmark DAC2 HGC. I use an android tablet and have Tidal and Qobuz currently. I l feel like the sound quality and Hi-Res content is a little better on Qobuz but the Tidal interface is better on the BluOS app. Amazon HD was horrible on the BluOS app but the catalog didn't seem bad. The lack of integration Amazon HD had with the app made it a non starter with me. I got rid of Amazon HD a week into the trial it was so unusable with BluOS.
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  • RamZet
    RamZet Posts: 792
    Amazon HD. I like the GUI too.
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  • xsmi
    xsmi Posts: 1,798
    mantis wrote: »
    I don't put much stock in streaming music services but I do like to discover music with them. My main music service is Apple Music. I like it as I have everything Apple , I can share it with the family, I can discover new music , It runs perfectly on my Sonos whole house system and it sounds fine for back ground music. It's perfect in the car I have Apple Car Play in both our vehicles.
    When I want to listen to music, I either use Flac downloads or Discs. Yup still put disc's in my Oppo and listen to certain music that way. I also have fooled around with Music players like Puremusic and some of the other ones but I don't find myself listening to music enough to sit and manage all that anymore. I was heavy into DAC's and all that madness which was really fun years ago but I just don't have enough time in the day to really get deep back into all that at this time.

    I have however listened to Tidal and didn't find it to sound as good as the actual Disc or downloaded file. It's closer than ever before but if I'm gonna spend money on higher quality music, I want higher quality music not a close enough version.

    I'm in the same boat. However, I ONLY Play CD's, SACD, and LP's for serious listening.
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    Amazon HD. Love the "stations" function.
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  • Gardenstater
    Gardenstater Posts: 4,502
    I can't use Amazon HD with my Squeezebox Touch because afaik, no one has written an app for it. Before I had the SBT I was using my desktop Windows PC upstream of my DAC and it was an epic fail for me because, unlike TIDAL and Qobuz, Amazon did not at that time have any way to do bitperfect via either Wasapi or ASIO. I notified them of my reason for cancellation. I'm sure they got right on that.
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  • displayname
    displayname Posts: 1,149
    HiDesertNM wrote: »
    displayname wrote: »
    I've only tried Spotify and Tidal, and I keep both of them now. Tidal's catalog and UI are very comparable to Spotify, but Spotify still has a big advantage with suggesting music that I end up liking and digging into more. It's just much better for music discovery compared to every other platform.

    The drawback to Spotify is no Wifi. Limited to around 320 kbps. On a decent system spotify will sound like crap compared to a service like Tidal that can stream lossless files from 16 bit or higher. Spotify has finally said they will offer a WIFI service but so far I don't see it offered in my area. Its a real show stopper for me.

    This is 100% why I've kept both services. Once Spotify *hifi* starts to roll out, I'll test them both side by side. But I could see myself dropping Tidal, especially since I don't use an MQA dac currently.
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  • marvda1
    marvda1 Posts: 4,903
    displayname wrote: »
    HiDesertNM wrote: »
    displayname wrote: »
    I've only tried Spotify and Tidal, and I keep both of them now. Tidal's catalog and UI are very comparable to Spotify, but Spotify still has a big advantage with suggesting music that I end up liking and digging into more. It's just much better for music discovery compared to every other platform.

    The drawback to Spotify is no Wifi. Limited to around 320 kbps. On a decent system spotify will sound like crap compared to a service like Tidal that can stream lossless files from 16 bit or higher. Spotify has finally said they will offer a WIFI service but so far I don't see it offered in my area. Its a real show stopper for me.

    This is 100% why I've kept both services. Once Spotify *hifi* starts to roll out, I'll test them both side by side. But I could see myself dropping Tidal, especially since I don't use an MQA dac currently.

    you can get mqa through a lumin u1 mini without having a mqa dac. ;)
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  • displayname
    displayname Posts: 1,149
    marvda1 wrote: »
    displayname wrote: »
    HiDesertNM wrote: »
    displayname wrote: »
    I've only tried Spotify and Tidal, and I keep both of them now. Tidal's catalog and UI are very comparable to Spotify, but Spotify still has a big advantage with suggesting music that I end up liking and digging into more. It's just much better for music discovery compared to every other platform.

    The drawback to Spotify is no Wifi. Limited to around 320 kbps. On a decent system spotify will sound like crap compared to a service like Tidal that can stream lossless files from 16 bit or higher. Spotify has finally said they will offer a WIFI service but so far I don't see it offered in my area. Its a real show stopper for me.

    This is 100% why I've kept both services. Once Spotify *hifi* starts to roll out, I'll test them both side by side. But I could see myself dropping Tidal, especially since I don't use an MQA dac currently.

    you can get mqa through a lumin u1 mini without having a mqa dac. ;)

    I wouldn't be keeping the CXN if I picked up the Lumin. But as you already know I have aspirations to move to a Lumin + new DAC. It's just not financially in the cards... yet.
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  • GlennDog
    GlennDog Posts: 3,121
    marvda1 wrote: »
    you can get mqa through a lumin u1 mini without having a mqa dac. ;)

    When using the UI for the Lumin Mini,
    Can you clarify the difference between “passthrough” and “digital out”

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  • oldschlpolkie
    oldschlpolkie Posts: 101
    Tidal HIFI!
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  • xsmi
    xsmi Posts: 1,798
    Looks like Apple Music may have lossless streaming soon.
    https://gadgets.ndtv.com/audio/news/airpods-third-generation-apple-music-hifi-dolby-audio-atmos-lossless-quality-support-ios-14-6-wwdc-2021-report-2427333
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  • rooftop59
    rooftop59 Posts: 8,121
    xsmi wrote: »
    Looks like Apple Music may have lossless streaming soon.
    https://gadgets.ndtv.com/audio/news/airpods-third-generation-apple-music-hifi-dolby-audio-atmos-lossless-quality-support-ios-14-6-wwdc-2021-report-2427333

    That would be cool but I’ll believe it when I see it!
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  • xsmi
    xsmi Posts: 1,798
    https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/05/17/apple-music-announces-lossless-audio-spatial-audio-with-dolby-atmos-coming-in-june
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  • rooftop59
    rooftop59 Posts: 8,121
    xsmi wrote: »
    https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/05/17/apple-music-announces-lossless-audio-spatial-audio-with-dolby-atmos-coming-in-june

    I saw that today! Pretty cool, and the price is t chancing! Also Amazon HD is now only $10 a month. But neither works with roon dangit!

    If you purchase tidal yearly through best buy it’s less that $10 a month anyway...now if qobuz will match these prices then I would switch as I think their SQ is best...
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