Spotify goes 'extreme.'
Premium users of the Spotify service have access to unlimited streaming on their mobile devices, but there has always been questions about the quality of the streams. The company has put those questions to rest this week, adding an 'extreme' option.
Until this week, there were only two options, "low" at 96kbps and "high" at 160kbps. While the high quality was ... [ read the full article ]
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FLAC would be great...but it would probably be too much for low-bandwidth companies like Sprint and AT&T...and even with Verizon or T-Mobile you would hit limits that cause extra fees or slow-downs. If you can actually hear the difference between a 320kbps MP3 and FLAC, you must have ungodly ears. Honestly, I can tell the difference from 160K to 192K...but after that, I can't tell unless I have a good subwoofer and/or dedicated tweeters...and even then, 320K sounds and feels the same as FLAC.
Of course, I still rip everything in FLAC just because I have OCD.
Indeed Spotify had an option for mobile devices to choose the streaming quality (low 96kbps vs high-160kbps) - but this is just all about it. That hasn't changed since (at least for Android).
For the iPhone things are different now and there are three bandwidths to choose from, the last one being the questionable "Extreme" option which must be 320kbps.
