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At ~17 USD a month, you could buy nearly every new song you like that you found that month in CD quality or better.
Start building your own library.
Never heard of qobuz before. What exactly is this Hi-Res and why is it more expensive than a CD?
Hi-res audio is up to 192kHz sampling, much higher than the 44.1kHz sampling of CDs (number of times per second the input soundwave is sampled), and a bit depth of 24bits, compared to CDs 16bit (value of the sample). This produces much larger file sizes, but also better definition to the sound of those songs. If you’re listening on high quality audio equipment, you will notice this difference.
Apple Music stayed the same price and Tidal** lowered its Hi-Fi tier to match Apple’s pricing. Fuck Spotify.
Spotify is absolutely the best advertising that competing services like Tidal could ask for. For the same cost as current Spotify (11$/mo) you can pump to Tidal for the same cost and get HiFi already! Bonus addition: you loose the superfluous non-music content that’s slowly taking over at Spotify.
If it will be released one day, far in the future…
