Spotify announces a ton of new features to make using its app easier

08 May 2025
They are all rolling out starting today.

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Anonymous, 10 hours agoTidal were caught lying about MQA being lossless and that p... morethey didn't claim MQA IS "lossless", they just advertised that it is more superior than lossless FLAC (which isn't because it is still lossy—despite it's capability on reaching 24bit/192khz)

    Anonymous, 10 hours agoTidal were caught lying about MQA being lossless and that p... moreThere are levels of "lossiness"... Everyone can hear the difference between 128 kbps MP3 and regular Audio CD quality on any half-decent equipment. You could get away with 320 kpbs if the recording doesn't have much (especially in the upper frequency range) detail. Audio CD vs. MQA vs. SACD vs. High-res PCM gets more difficult.

    I never had anything that can decode MQA so didn't use it or care for it and missed the whole story about it. It's gone anyway so irrelevant, except for moral discussions about TIDAL and/or MQA (the company).

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      • 10 hours ago

      User935, 19 hours agoDepends on how you look at it. For me, the first question i... moreTidal were caught lying about MQA being lossless and that proved that most people can't hear the difference between lossy vs lossless audio

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        • 10 hours ago

        User935, 13 hours agoHow so? You find an album or playlist you like, you press p... moreThe interface, its just slow to respond compared to Amazon Music/YouTube Music/Spotify
        There were also issues with playing my downloaded music offline which the other apps never had a problem with

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          FunnyZa, 15 hours agoI mean some of these AI songs are actually good and catchyAudio quality is a question...

            Anonymous, 08 May 2025TIDAL has the worst app out of all the music streaming opti... moreHow so? You find an album or playlist you like, you press play, you enjoy music. What does Spotify do better?
            Deezer, that I used for a while years ago was basically the same. Using TIDAL through my receiver's HEOS App brings me a bit more joy, I will admit that.

            And can't say I'm in any way impressed by any of it, all of these modern apps are nothing but a bad joke compared to WinAmp on PC 20 years ago, but it serves its purpose.

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              Anonymous, 08 May 2025And still no light mode... Ableist trash.Metal issues, much?

                Anonymous, 08 May 2025Better get rid of the fake AI artists and the fake AI produ... moreI mean some of these AI songs are actually good and catchy

                  Salmee, 09 May 2025How much better is Tidal than Spotify?Depends on how you look at it. For me, the first question is binary: lossless stream available - 1, no lossless stream - 0.
                  Paying a monthly subscription for a digital music service where the best audio quality is worse than Audio CD was 40 (!) years ago is, in my book, simply unacceptable.
                  Spotify's max bitrate is 320 kbps, on TIDAL the minimum available is lossless compressed FLAC which is normally around 900 kbps, if that tells you anything. And a lot of albums are available in "Hi-Res" like 24 bit/96 kHz with bitrates of a few thousand. You may or may not appreciate the difference, depending on the quality of your equipment, records that you listen to, the environment you listen in etc.

                  Same goes for how Netflix audio and video quality is unacceptable compared to Blu-Ray, but in that space there is no readily available alternative and video streaming is much more fragmented.
                  I have yet to stumble upon a song or album that isn't available on TIDAL so I really don't see what advantage could Spotify have over it.

                  They do offer a free 30 day trial (through some offers more) so you can check it out yourself.

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                    • 09 May 2025

                    User935, 08 May 2025Why wait and keep paying for an inferior product when you c... moreHow much better is Tidal than Spotify?

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                      • 08 May 2025

                      User935, 08 May 2025Why wait and keep paying for an inferior product when you c... moreTIDAL has the worst app out of all the music streaming options. It's honestly dreadful

                        Cyr4x, 08 May 2025Brilliant. Bunch od AI and features, noone asked for. When ... moreWhy wait and keep paying for an inferior product when you can create a TIDAL account and download the app within minutes?

                        Deezer and other streaming services also have lossless, if I'm not mistaken. Only Spotify is stuck in 1998 when we ripped CDs to MP3 as storage space cost some real money and broadband internet existed only in science fiction.

                          I've had these features for a couple of weeks now —

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                            • 08 May 2025

                            And still no light mode... Ableist trash.

                              Doing ANYTHING but adding Hi-Res. When will Spotify get LDAC/LHDC and aptX support?

                                I'm glad I'm free to own my own music in lossless quality. No need to depend on big companies to decide how i listen to it.

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                                  • 08 May 2025

                                  Anonymous, 08 May 2025A way to get rid entirely of all the green would be a good ... more*UI related but back-end also, obviously. I actually would pay Deezer for a fair price, as the entire industry costs : 4.80 euros, nothing more.

                                  It's DRM Free, which means stresslessly using in on BSD without linuxcompat ancient kernel quirks, but they are some greedy fags, so sorry ! (their UI--API-- is the fastest, btw, 'maybe' because they are not using the widevine matastasic-cancerous google-related stuff.)

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                                    • Anonymous
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                                    • 08 May 2025

                                    A way to get rid entirely of all the green would be a good start ! +completely disabling everything 'pop' means and podcasts also, in settings, merged, no different domain/cookies for that panel. + when you delete the account, uBlock should cry about that redirect. + free of anything google related should also be a good start. Ads shouldn't mean Google.

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                                      • Anonymous
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                                      • 08 May 2025

                                      Better get rid of the fake AI artists and the fake AI production music.
                                      This would improve Spotify a lot.

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                                        • 08 May 2025

                                        Apple Music say Hi to all those new features on Spotify. Except the AI crap 😎

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