AccidentalLemming@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoWhite noise podcasts are costing Spotify $38m per year, and record labels are not happy about itwww.bloomberg.comexternal-linkmessage-square298fedilinkarrow-up1969arrow-down140
arrow-up1929arrow-down1external-linkWhite noise podcasts are costing Spotify $38m per year, and record labels are not happy about itwww.bloomberg.comAccidentalLemming@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square298fedilink
minus-squareRai@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·11 months agoI can absolutely hear the difference between 192 and lossless with any of my too-many-pairs-of nice headphones! Not at all with my AirBudz though. I can absolutely not tell in my car or my partner’s, despite us both having high-end sound systems (theirs is 2kUSD+ and I can’t even tell in there!)
minus-squaremerde alors@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down5·11 months agoare you old? with time it gets naturally impossible to hear those differences
minus-squarederanger@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-211 months agoBit depth affects noise floor, not frequency range. You are correct that the noise floor of 16 bit is well within the limits of human hearing, making 24 bit redundant outside of production. Spotify maxes out at 256k, so you’re just wrong there. https://support.spotify.com/us/article/audio-quality/
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I can absolutely hear the difference between 192 and lossless with any of my too-many-pairs-of nice headphones! Not at all with my AirBudz though.
I can absolutely not tell in my car or my partner’s, despite us both having high-end sound systems (theirs is 2kUSD+ and I can’t even tell in there!)
are you old?
with time it gets naturally impossible to hear those differences
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Bit depth affects noise floor, not frequency range.
You are correct that the noise floor of 16 bit is well within the limits of human hearing, making 24 bit redundant outside of production.
Spotify maxes out at 256k, so you’re just wrong there.
https://support.spotify.com/us/article/audio-quality/