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  • Spotify listeners may finally get lossless audio -- but at a cost

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     Oh, and I am testing many of the platforms, and just pushed five of my playlists to Amazon with Soundiiz, from Spotify, Tidal, Deezer, and AM.
      
    Thanks.  If I get nothing else from the thread it's that Amazon's API has been updated and syncs more than just playlists now, it wasn't like that a little while ago.

    I really don't think it's that niche a user case, but I don't work in the industry so can't give any citation to that.  Spotify do though, and they much think there's enough people out there running high res music streamers who they think will pay.  

    Apple too must think there's enough people connecting a DAC to their phones or MACs to warranty the cost of delivery of their own high res lossless library.  Given you can't listen to hi res lossless over a bluetooth connection, you have to wonder why Apple bothered making it available if there's no market for it?





    williamlondon

  • Spotify listeners may finally get lossless audio -- but at a cost

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    AppleZulu said:
    Why pay them extra when you can get it from Apple (and others who followed Apple’s lead) for less?
    It depends on the third party integrations. Apple doesn’t have many third party integrations, so I can’t stream lossless to either Sonos or, more importantly for me, BlueSound. So, currently on top of my Apple sub I have Qobuz. Amazon HD is pretty good, but they don’t integrate with services like Soundiz for syncing playlists/albums/artists and so on. 

    As good as Apple’s lossless is, there’s not really anyway I can listen to it when I can feel any benefit. Spotify generally have nailed the curations and integrations, so I’d move to them and pay the additional charge until/if Apple open up their lossless streaming to others. 
    williamlondon

  • Report finds AirTag enables 'inexpensive, effective stalking'

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    It’s not much of a story, really. 

    Anybody who wants one of these for nefarious reasons will have already bought a £30-40 GPS tracker with a SIM that relays live data without any safeguards, and is no bigger than an Airtag. You can also listen in, in one way comms, with a lot of them too. 
     
    Freely available, with 100 hours battery life will cover most use cases for the wrong-uns to use. Sure the Airtags could be used this way, but they aren’t breaking any new ground here. 
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  • Firefox 57 'Quantum' for macOS released, iOS version user interface refresh coming

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    I don't like the aesthetics, but do like the speed.

    But... Having FF open now creates more fan noise and heat than running Win10 in a VM.  Nuts.

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