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> we should be filing or looking for a proper bug report for this instead of crafting hacks or talking about alternative products altogether right off the bat As if Google even considers reading any bug reports ... :(
Googlers read HN though ;-) (source: I work for Google)
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I know well enough what CDs are :) could you please give a few examples of songs you can't get?
I'll literally click on the playlist I'm listening to right now and start listing albums that don't appear available physically on Amazon. (1) Til The End - MitiS (2) Dear Me, - Borgeous (3) Ultraviolet - 3LAU (4) Mau5ville Level 1 - Deadmau5 (5) Sleeping With Roses - Chelsea Cutler I could go on, because I literally didn't skip a single song. I started at the top and went down. On this playlist of 300 songs, I would…
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It seems like bypassing the APIs which might screw up the audio with downsampling, and something like this is what the OP needed: https://www.audioquest.com/dacs/dragonfly/dragonfly-black Edit: would work out of the box with the Eee PC he has as well.
A 32 bit DAC is just a full on scam.
I have a pair of powered studio monitors (Mackie MR5), and I completely relate to this problem. Many PCs and phones will emit an audible hissing noise while plugged in. I've tested on a dozen different devices, with integrated and external DACs, five hundred dollar sound cards, massively shielded cables, practically every modern OS you can name, tweaking every audio setting exposed to me. The only devices that work p…
While I agree with your general thoughts, I have to disagree with this particular point. In my opinion there's never been a better time for lossless audio. My collection is made of digital, lossless material only. I buy a lot of music - about 5-10 releases a week - and I have no problem at all finding everthing I want in a lossless format. I understand that this may differ depending on what you listen to and ironically obscure, niche music might be better served by lossles music stores, but I just wanted to provid a different perspective.
If I don't what I'm looking for at Bandcamp, Boomkat, Bleep, Qobuz or various label stores chances are that it's a physical-only release, in which case ripping it myself is always an option.
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Re. flac downloads, Bandcamp (almost?) always offers a flac download option. You'd be surprised how many bands have a Bandcamp page, even if they're signed to labels. The option is not well advertised. After you purchase a digital download, there's a tiny arrow next to the 'download' link that allows you to switch the download to flac. I always download flac and consequently spend a lot of money at Bandcamp!
Bandcamp is pretty much single-handedly keeping high quality audio alive. I exclusively buy music from them and then load it on to my own music streaming server.
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I know well enough what CDs are :) could you please give a few examples of songs you can't get?
I'll literally click on the playlist I'm listening to right now and start listing albums that don't appear available physically on Amazon. (1) Til The End - MitiS (2) Dear Me, - Borgeous (3) Ultraviolet - 3LAU (4) Mau5ville Level 1 - Deadmau5 (5) Sleeping With Roses - Chelsea Cutler I could go on, because I literally didn't skip a single song. I started at the top and went down. On this playlist of 300 songs, I would…
(2) https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/dear-me-borgeous/rdmk0qi0h...
(3) https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/ultraviolet-3lau/dah7cnit7...
(4) https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/mau5ville-level-1-deadmau5...
(5) https://ca.7digital.com/artist/chelsea-cutler/release/sleepi...
All lossless. All digital. Most of them available at several stores. You're welcome.
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> At least on android you can get rid of most Google code with Lineage + microg ...as far as we know. What about the baseband processor that has access to everything at any time? > Why do you trust the Apple ones then? Becase they took a stand and refused to introduce a security backdoor in the FBI San Bernardino case. And because iPhone hacks cost more on the net compared to Android ones. This to me indicates that i…
Also, compare OS updates: Android has significantly more critical security fixes than iOS, every single time. Maybe it means they are finding more bugs and fixing them, or maybe it means Android is basically security Swiss cheese. my money is on the latter.
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Did you do a blind test on spotify's high quality vs lossless? At least with 320mp3s I could only get it right with certain songs and not too consistently. I'd say my room treatment has a far bigger impact. (but regarding hardware I'm totally with you and haven't found the source of my rather high noise floor either)
Test your system (and your room) with this audio quality quiz, comparing lossless audio with several compressed bit rate streams [1]. With my 50-year old ears, and an outboard DAC/amp and audiophile magnetic planar headphones, I could only score 50%. That said, switching between Spotify and Tidal on the same track, I hear a pretty big difference. The lossless music has a depth that just isn't there on the compressed…
The thing that gives it away for me is the extreme highs and lows, both are clipped when compressed usually. I should note, I wasn’t picking which “sounded better”, but rather which “sounded uncompressed”. Several of the tracks sounded better at 320k than they did uncompressed to me. Despite being rather close to 40, I am still able to easily hear sounds well over 20kHz.
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aliexpress, topping dx3 pro, solved. Motherboard audio and soundcards are just terrible.
I typically recommend Fiio gear for people just getting into higher-end audio. They have some great stuff for https://www.fiio.com/amp
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> (I use i3 and write most of my own utilities) You're kind of confirming his/her point here.
Not really. I made that choice. I also run/ran the exact same setup on my Debian machines. Could use my wife's machine as an example. Runs Arch, uses Plasma for a WM and never has any problems.