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		toomanybeersies on March 1, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Spotify Form F-1 Their streaming is not lossless. There are also two different quality levels for streaming that you can choose in settings, ensure you've selected high quality, I'm not sure what the default is. Upon saying that, even with my Sennheiser HD 202s and Macbook built-in audio I can tell the difference between Spotify and lossless FLAC. My Australian internet is so bad that I probably couldn't even stream FLAC anyway.

KozmoNau7 on March 1, 2018 [–]

Default is 160kbps Ogg Vorbis, high quality is 320kbps.

For the mobile app, it's 96, 160 and 320 for normal, high and extreme, respectively.

Chromecast and the browser-based player both use AAC, at a maximum of 256kbps.

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