Flac Support

[LaoTzu]

will spotify be upgrading to flac support soon? and streaming in flac for higher quality music? if so spotify would be a leader in sound quality and would set it apart from other competitors. please consider this.

[BertH1]

Aha; wonderful news on the website of WhatHifi

http://www.whathifi.com/news/spotify-hi-fi-tier-set-to-offer-lossless-streaming

Many audiophile members are very happy with FLAC coming to Spotify

[user-removed]

That's great! Thnx for this article and let's hope and cross the fingers Spotify will bring the rumours to an end and offer me that HiFi subscription 🙂

[user-removed]

Yeah but I wan't it for the same price 😄

[BertH1]

I'm willing to pay for exampel 5 euro more ; but FLAC for the same price would be fantastic. 

[TrevBlu19]

Please let me try this out!

[williamsk]

Current streaming quality is fine for me.  But I use Spotify to organize all of my music - streaming and local files.  And I REALLY want to move my local files over to FLAC.

The FLAC libraries are open source and free to use - surely Spotify can integrate support for playing local FLAC files whether they're interested in lossless streaming or not?

[Milesian5997]

I would be prepared to,pay what im paying now with Tidal $20 a month for flac quality streaming with. But it had better be good quality. If you are just going to convert your low quality mp3 to flac, forget it. I want CD quality, uncompressed, flac recordings. AND YES!!! I WANT MQA INCLUDED. 

[sfjazzzman]

EVERYBODY please STOP referring to FLAC as lossless--it is NOT necessarily so.  FLAC is a compression technology/container that will reduce the file size of ANY kind of file.  So, you can 'FLAC' an 128k mps and it might be smaller, but still sound crappy.  If you want uncompressed audio (ie, 44.1/16bit - current CD quality) or evern better 48/32bit or 96/64) you should say CD Quality or better.  A FLAC of these rates would be lossless, and smaller.  

Even though most folks *mean* FLAC=Lossless, you need to be clear.

And yes, you/I can hear the difference! 🙂

When is it coming!??

[DarkPoet]

ok mr sfjazzzman  ?

since when is FLAC not LOSSLESS, unlike almost EVERY other codecs that CLAIM to be ?
what exactly and how do youo create a FLAC file that ISEN'T lossless ? would you oplease clarify that ? the only thing FLAC does unlike MOST other "lossless" formats, is that it compresses stuff that ISEN't there, vs a WAV file that RECORDS and USES BITS for SILENCE !! this is the ONLY difference between FLAC and WAV !! but it seems you somehow know better ?!?
(I just hate it when turds puke in a forum without actually knowing what they are talking about !!)
https://xiph.org/flac/

[sfjazzzman]

whoa, whoa, calm down there kimosabe (sp)... I do know better
you CAN turn ANY file into a FLAC file. I can send you an MP3 that has
been converted into a FLAC container and it WONT be lossless. In order for
a FLAC to be lossless, the SOURCE MUST be lossless.

Why so angry? Why call me a **bleep**? Why insult?

this **bleep**?: I am an engineer that helped create some of the first online
music encoding...

[domenico]

You are right but you also know people mean lossless flac (created from cd wav).

And yes, when it is coming Spotify? 

[DarkPoet]

"sfjazzzman 

Music Lover

  ‎2017-07-14 05:14 PM

EVERYBODY please STOP referring to FLAC as lossless" !!

it IS lossless, unless youo are STUPID enough to try and take a COMPRESSED format, and make that into lossless, but only STUPÅID people think the chain is stronger than the weakest link.. your CLAIM that FLAC is still BS.. and that's what you stated.. and that's what I reacted to.. that you now know better and did'n change this is on your own account.. but as I said I'm really tired of people stating **bleep** allover the net, and they don't have a **bleep**ing clue..

[DarkPoet]

EVERYBODY please STOP referring to FLAC as lossless" !!

it IS lossless, unless youo are STUPID enough to try and take a COMPRESSED format, and make that into lossless, but only STUPÅID people think the chain is stronger than the weakest link.. your CLAIM that FLAC is still BS.. and that's what you stated.. and that's what I reacted to.. that you now know better and did'n change this is on your own account.. but as I said I'm really tired of people stating **bleep** allover the net, and they don't have a **bleep**ing clue..

[FDK]

How ever...make the Test by your self: 

Step1 Take a very good High-End Equipment. ( U must able to hear differnces by Power-Cord-Cables and so on).

Step2  Stream A CD (what U like) at FLAC and WAVE on your Server (or what U have)

Step3 Hear the difference!

Finsh.

[BertH1]

This is NOT a solution ; I  have try this several times but even my mother in law can hear the difference; sound quality of Spotify is reasonable but CD quality is much better; When oh when will Spotify start with the promised HIFI quality ??

[doctordyna]

Screenshot of you beating Foobar's ABX plugin on 320 vs flac or it didn't happen.

[doctordyna]

I still don't know why everyone is so bent on the quality of flac, or what compressed actually means.

Did the people who wrote VLC or MPC have arguments like this? No, they just added support for playing flac files.

Some of us have these files on our hard drives and it would be nice if we didn't have to go to another application to play them.

Thats all.

[crazgod]

Geez, everybody is so hostile. Can't we all just get along?

I agree with those requesting FLAC be supported. Regardless of whether it is the best and regardless of how you pronounce "potato", many of us have .FLAC files we would like to be able to play in Spotify. I would prefer they add support for all known audio formats that way everything is supported. Even better, just code it so Spotify relegates the decoding of the files to the operating system so Spotify is able to play any codecs your system recognizes and it is your system or device that is reading the file. If they'd do that some of you could stop debating over which codec would win in a cage fight.

Just an idea though. Cheers!

[aprps]

Pukes? Only insecure people name call people they don't even know.

[BYF10]

Easy there, tiger.

He was asking if local (in Spotify) FLAC support would be implemented anytime soon. I am aware that his idea of what a lossless audio file is a bit confused, but he does have a valid question. Whoever labled this as an answer, though... why?

Honestly, there are two questions here:

1. Will Spotify support local FLAC anytime soon?
2. Will Spotify stream lossless music eventually?

Your reply failed to answer those questions, instead, you chose to spew mispelled word vomit.

[aprps]

Sorry, but it was not me who posted the reply mentioned. I am not
interested in the issue not am I someone who would reply that way.