Comments on: Spotify launches CD-quality streaming for subscribers

By: Orion 88

Orion 88 — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:00:36 +0000

-Commercial Music CD, purchased at music stores, pressed from glass masters are 320k.
-Semi-Commercial CD, purchased at gift shops or variety stores, are made from a purchased commercial Music CDs, with permission and rites from the artists, are 256k.
-Burned CD: Home-made copies of CDs and downloaded music, are 224k.
-MP3 CD: Are home-made music CDs, with 138 compressed MP3 files stored on them, are 192k.
-DAB radio are usually 128k.
-FM Stereo radio , is 96k.
-FM Mono radio, is 56k.
-LW radio, is 32k.
-MW radio, is 24k.

By: Pegasus33

Pegasus33 — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:48:07 +0000

That depends what kind of CD are you talking about. MP3 CDs and Burned CDs are not as good as the original Music CD. I think of streaming bit-rates like this:
A Music CD is 320k. A Burned CD is 256k. An MP3 CD is 192k. 128k is standard DAB/HD-radio(US) quality. 96k is FM stereo. Anything below that is MW/LW quality.
I would also like to point out that this is for streaming audio only, not broadcast quality, as there isn’t interference from those dumb government inforced energy saving bulbs.>:c

By: Ramon Roca-Sastre

Ramon Roca-Sastre — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:19:39 +0000

IMPRESSIVE.

I swear, I dont remember the last time I bought a CD. I used to discharge all the music via emule.

One day a friend send me an invitation to spotify… At first I thought it should be illegal.

but NO.

It was legal.

Finally somehow the music industry gave me the solution to the gap that existed between the business model of the music industry and technology: the possibility of downloading all the music I wanted to my ipod, PC, or whatever illegally VS buying a CD in a musicstore at a high price. A CD that I couldnt listen to in my Ipod, etc.

So now Im a premium member. And I hope the music industry will continue to believe in this people, in spotify, and the music collection will continue to grow.

I’m glad of paying 10 € just so I can listen to all the music I want, legally.

The only thing I miss is to use spotify from my 3G mobile telephone Hope some day it will be possible to use it in mobile devices!!!!

Greetings from Barcelona, Spain

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By: mike

mike — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:00:03 +0000

I joined Spotify today – hugely impressed… initially.

For some reason it just stopped streaming and won’t restart… anyone else getting this or is it just my slow connection? Never had this problem on Last.fm…

By: Chris Nee

Chris Nee — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:17:28 +0000

I KNEW I was paying them for something!

I’m really getting into Spotify. Signing up for Premium was a decision encouraged by hosting a rowdy barbecue, but the whole listening experience is so much better that it really is worth it.

And they’re adding quality to that too. Lovely stuff, great work.

By: Jules Morgan

Jules Morgan — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:57:57 +0000

Yeah I agree actually. There’s zero chance of me upgrading while it costs more than 50% of my broadband (which gives me access to the whole Internet, not just specific files).

Maybe Premium just isn’t aimed at me. That’s cool. Guess that’s why there’s a free version.

By: David

David — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:26:51 +0000

9.99 is a bit expensive when there are free services like mecanto.com around

By: UnAmerican

UnAmerican — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:42:34 +0000

If they made it £9.99/yr I’d pay but not at £9.99/month..

By: Jules Morgan

Jules Morgan — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:35:24 +0000

Certain breeds of dogs will also be disappointed by the vast difference between this and CD quality too.

For almost everyone else (you know, the people who don’t have thousands of £s worth of amp and speaker equipment hooked up to their PCs), this will be quite satisfactory.

By: fb753385400

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:48:32 +0000

As a rabid FLAC collector, I agree with your sentiments Peter… But a 320kbps Ogg Vorbis stream will be transparent for pretty much any listener on any equipment… Nay sayers feel free to post double blind test results to the contrary. I have found that even at 160kbps the Ogg Vorbis codec is actually pretty hot considering…

This is the move that is moving me to subscription! Good call Spotify!

By: JB

JB — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:52:56 +0000

Peter, I think you forget that this is Ogg Vorbis q9 in 320 kb/s and not mp3. Ogg Vorbis gives higher sound quality.

By: Peter Taylor

Peter Taylor — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:24:04 +0000

320 kb/s is not CD quality. Really good for background music, but those of us who love fine music want the full noise when we sit down to concentrate and listen.

Great to see the quality bump up a notch, but let’s not lower expectations by throwing around the term “CD quality” willy nilly. There is a significant difference between 320 kb/s and uncompressed music for many of us.