topic Re: Spotify Web Silent Hi-Fi Tests? in App & Features

Spotify Web Silent Hi-Fi Tests?

SpotifyUser58 — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 20:33:40 GMT

Spotify web has historically provided higher audio quality than the applications: https://support.spotify.com/us/article/audio-quality/

However, around the time Spotify removed Neil Young, I noticed two things:

1. Spotify web works on mobile

2. Since Neil Young got pulled, Spotify web has sounded NOTABLY better than normal

I'm not certain this is lossless, but there has been a change.

I was also just streaming a song, and noticed my bandwidth spiked to 2.8 Mbps while streaming a song.

I'm asking for official confirmation from Spotify: are you trialing some kind of upgrade in quality?

Can we get it working on the apps? Because the app still sounds awful.

SpotifyUser58 — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 19:53:03 GMT

Here is a simple example showing overall system bandwidth use while streaming.

These spikes are definitely Spotify. You can pause the app, and the spikes will stop.

SpotifyUser58 — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 20:08:48 GMT

I guess this still averages out to 270 Kbps, which is higher than Spotify advertises.

Blacklabel78 — Sat, 13 May 2023 21:36:03 GMT

switch to apple music, you'll notice right away how good it suppose to sound. Spotify doesn't provide hi-fi/lossless at all.