I use spotify more as a music discovery platform. If I really like an album i'll download the best version of it.
Same, Spotify is best for music discovery, once I find things I enjoy I buy an offline version and host it on my jellyfin instance
Apple Music has already been offering Hi-Res lossless audio for years at no extra cost. They also don't pay tens of millions of dollars to anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists and shove them in my face.
I'm not sure what Spotify's plan is here, charging more for something that is the same or worse than what I already have.
Meanwhile tidal already has better quality at the same price.
MQA is literal garbage, so no, Tidal doesn't.
Qobuz and Deezer do however.
What is MQA?
It's been a long time since the MQA controversy but I remember this was a great video on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRjsu9-Vznc
IIRC Tidal basically applies subjective post-processing onto the lossless files and pretends they sound better.
and integrates with Plex, so I can self host my own high quality library and truly use tidal as an exploring platform
I wanted to like tidal, but song suggestions and the search didn't cut it for me after using it for 4 months. Other than that, quality is superb and very affordable!
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