The OP only specifically refers to the apps not necessarily its usability for musiciansiTunes peaked in usability for musicians ages ago
lol - okidoke, well I guess no enlightenment for those not in the know shall be found here. I'll have to just remain skeptical in my ignorance.and if you have to ask the question, you’ve likely not followed its painful demise into the rebranded mess it is now.
Lots to say about the possibilities but make sure you have Sound Check loudness normalization turned on or any loudness war victimized album is liable to do this.Is this one of those UI things I just don’t get?
I’ve been using Apple Music for around a decade, occasionally they’ll move the search button or something and my muscle memory needs re-training, but outside of that I never have a problem finding what I’m looking for. The only real gripe I have, which I’m not even sure is an Apple issue, is almost every album that’s a remaster has varying track volumes on the same album. I was listening to a Lamb Of God album the other day and when the next song came on I almost blew my ears out.
I have listened to both side by side. Apple is clearly better sounding. IMO and many othersSpotify’s max bitrate is 320kbps AAC which should be indistinguishable from lossless. Here’s an ABX test with various encoding bitrates to test if you can hear the difference between them and lossless: https://abx.digitalfeed.net/list.html
Then you should have no problem passing the ABX testI have listened to both side by side. Apple is clearly better sounding. IMO and many others
Not puffing chest. Just saying last time I listened to the same song on both formats, Apple sounded better. Take that for what it is worth....Then you should have no problem passing the ABX test.
And I provided a way for you to objectively test if your perception is due to differences in encoding quality or something else.Not puffing chest. Just saying last time I listened to the same song on both formats, Apple sounded better. Take that for what it is worth....
I did and this was a couple years ago. Maybe things are equal now???And I provided a way for you to objectively test if your perception is due to differences in encoding quality or something else.
Are you certain you had Spotify set to the maximum quality?
I did and this was a couple years ago. Maybe things are equal now???
I can't find any quality settings in the Spotify Android app. Am I being dumb, or does it just do the best quality it can, nothing to set?Spotify will do 320kbps for both streaming and downloads. Sounds good to me.
I can't find any quality settings in the Spotify Android app. Am I being dumb, or does it just do the best quality it can, nothing to set?