Spotify really need to upgrade their sound quality.
Nah, they are right where they belong.
You need to upgrade your streaming service, possibly.
I did, a long time ago. I use Qobuz for most of my streaming. But every now and then I want to run a mix based on my listening habits, and that's the one place where Spotify is better than its competitors. It can actually make meaningful suggestions.
Interesting to note. Thanks.
I'm trying to remember the last time I listened to music in that manner. It has been a while.
I tend to listen to types of music. Artists, frequently. Composers. Older classical. Blues. The Stones. You get the idea. Most of the time I'll have favourited stuff on Qobuz or can look them up, but sometimes I want a mix, especially when starting work in the mornings. What Spotify does is offer you up to six different mixes, and those are *my* six approaches, not standard typing.
I avoid the classical on Spotify because the sound quality is horrible. The slightly more modern stuff there is easier to live with.
There are times when I prefer classical and can't make up my mind, so Qobuz provides me with Hi Def recordings. Some are really great.
Since I'm listening while working on a laptop, the streaming bypasses the sound card and goes through a proper DAC before the Denon and the Dali/B&W speakers.
BTW, amazingly, I think I've found an album that the B&W subwoofer doesn't quite handle - the Blade Runner 2049 soundtrack on Qobuz (Spotify doesn't have the resolution).
I have had Qobuz recommended several times to me by knowledgeable people. I have yet to check the service out with a proper subscription. Future stuff, I suppose.
I tend to spend too much time lately over on the Steve Hoffman site, digging for new music options. So many industry people "live there" it can be almost intimidating. You talk to someone who seems smart for a few weeks and then find out you've been having an online conversation with one of the executives or production engineers from a major recording company for a while.
*BLINK!*
I still grab one artist and play all I can find from that one artist, quite often. Right now I am focused on John Coltrane.
I have twenty eight of his original albums either on LP or CD, at least nine more which are compilations created in the past thirty years.
I have always hyper'ed on one artist at a time. Not exclusively, but enough to call a possible obsession, although a short lived one.
I have been a TIDAL fan for almost eight years. I jumped on early, partly because of how they claimed to treat contributing artists regarding royalties from the streaming service.
Spotify was the most popular for a while, but mostly with the kids, their cell phones and tiny little ear plug things. Not really for me and I gave up trying, also due to lower resolution streams, interuptions.
Not streaming much right now. I still have many boxes of LPs to sort through from the landslide bounty I received last spring from the passing of an old friend. I helped his sweet widow clear his stuff out and she gave all his old records to me kind of as a tip, many of which had been processed for an archival storage idea he held to the end, but never finished.
I'm only half way through three car loads of banker boxes full of LPs and CDs, so far.
I need to knuckle down and get my version of culling done with these stacks of boxes, get the extras into hands which can appreciate the music and not just set them on a shelf and gloat to oneself at the fact of acquisition of ancient treasures. I feel that miserly at what I am doing sometimes, taking too long.
Impossible to call this First World problem a Quick Bitch, though, so I am way off topic. Sorry.
