Spotify goes to CD quality streaming....

[EarsEarsEars]

Not sure if this has been done, but very interesting.....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/5601866/Spotify-launches-CD-quality-streaming-for-premium-users.html

 

[John Duncan]

"effectively doubled [sic] the current quality offered to users"

So 320 then? So not actually CD quality. Dear old Telegraph...

 

[Andrew Everard]

Yup, here.

 

[idc]

Nice one. Had a look in preferences and there is a tick box in 'Sound' for 'Enable high bit rate'. It is greyed out and even in Lily Allen's The Fear which is quoted in the article I cannot tick the box as yet. Hopefully this will come in the next few weeks then.

So is this the final goodbye to itunes et all as a downloading service? Is this a goodbye to buying any more CDs? Crikey!

As it is I find Spotify sounds brilliant through my setup. The only issue is going to be bandwidth for the higher bit rate. Apparently the UK is the only place with bandwidth throttling at peak times due to demand. I often loose Spotify in the early evening. Spotify blame the service provider and in my case my service provider blame BT.

Still, this is brilliant news.

 

[Alec]

idc:

So is this the final goodbye to itunes et all as a downloading service? Is this a goodbye to buying any more CDs? Crikey!

As it is I find Spotify sounds brilliant through my setup. The only issue is going to be bandwidth for the higher bit rate. Apparently the UK is the only place with bandwidth throttling at peak times due to demand. I often loose Spotify in the early evening. Spotify blame the service provider and in my case my service provider blame BT.

Thats a "no" then. Frankly, for the reasons you give, it staggers me that people even ask the question. In fact, if my whole life had to happen on the net, and everything i need to live it were held there, it really would be time to start asking if suicide really is painless.

 

[idc]

al7478:idc:

So is this the final goodbye to itunes et all as a downloading service? Is this a goodbye to buying any more CDs? Crikey!

As it is I find Spotify sounds brilliant through my setup. The only issue is going to be bandwidth for the higher bit rate. Apparently the UK is the only place with bandwidth throttling at peak times due to demand. I often loose Spotify in the early evening. Spotify blame the service provider and in my case my service provider blame BT.

Thats a "no" then. Frankly, for the reasons you give, it staggers me that people even ask the question. In fact, if my whole life had to happen on the net, and everything i need to live it were held there, it really would be time to start asking if suicide really is painless.

The way I see it is that Spotify is still a new service, so there are going to be issues with it. I have had a very pleasent dialogue with both Spotify and the service provider. Both have said thanks for letting us know and we will work to sort it out. That part probably did not come over in my above post. In any case with itunes on the laptop and a fully charged ipod with as a back up I've got music for every occasion. The only things on the net I 'need' are Spotify and you!

 

[Alec]

Aw, shucks

 

[chebby]

If only everyone - who has the option - got cable broadband then it would put the pressure on BT to improve their infrastructure.

Actually no it wouldn't would it? That was a ridiculous idea. Sorry.

BT still live in the 1970s when you had to get permission from the Home Office to get a non-BT modem (ie one that actually worked and did not catch fire a lot) installed in a computer room.

With no competition they would still be giving us 56k and expecting eternal gratitude for it. As it is, large chunks of the national BT network still dates from the 1960s and it is up to the consumer to prove that BT is at fault before anything grudgingly gets done.

You have to have BT phones, BT modem, BT filters & BT broadband before they will even deign to send a 12 year old round with some device to 'ping' the circuit and confirm that the 128k you actually get from the 8meg advertised is correct because you live further than 50 metres away from the nearest digital exchange. The 12 year old will then leave saying "it will take up to 10 days to 'train' back to full speed".

I went to Virgin cable 2 years ago and it was a revelation. A full 10mbps with no limits (that I have discovered yet) and reliability that BT would deny was even possible.

BT can go stick it up their RAMBo (Rate Adaptive Management Box)

 

[PJPro]

Unfortunately, not all of us can get onto anything other than BT cables.....although a virgin backbone has been laid just down the road. Virgin are tight lipped about when it will be able for connection. Apparently, they get too many complaints when they don't meet their own targets.