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As much as I know Spotify isn't great for artists, I do find it to be the best streaming option for how I enjoy music. Next to Winamp of course.
It really whips the llamas ass.
Unfortunately, Spotify's streaming quality is rather low, even if you pay for a monthly subscription.
I switched to Tidal when I bought a dedicated DAC and a pair of very highend headphones and have not regretted it - you can hear the difference on good gear.
I have great gear, I have FLACs, I have 180g records, and I have Spotify, and they all sound fine. Perhaps I come from a time when 192 mp3s were what you downloaded, but IMO if it's a 320 mp3 or above it sounds the same. Only time I ever noticed and appreciated a difference was when sampling or mixing, and then higher quality can be appreciated, but if I'm just cranking tunes, Spotify, FLAC, or vinyl, really makes no difference, they all drown out the ringing in my ears just fine.
Looks like your ears' hearing profile matches the psychoacoustic models underlying lossy compression algorithms very closely.
That's the thing many people don't understand - lossy audio compression works better for you the more your ears match the average human ear.
In my case, being an older fuck with slight hearing deficiencies, I don't match this profile as closely. That's why I require higher bitrates (or lossless compression such as FLAC) for music to sound high quality.
So yeah - listening experience isn't just a matter of taste, it's highly subjective and will vary from person to person. For people like me, the difference between low-res streaming and FLAC is very noticeable, and ironically not because my ears are better than yours, but because they're worse. :)
I listen to punk music recorded on crappy gear, so I prefer not to hear it hi-fi.
Crappy punk music should be listened to from vinyl anyway.
Or cassette
Yeah. On second thought, that's even better. A shitty 80s boombox covered with band stickers is the ultimate way to listen to punk music. Sitting on table along with a dirty ashtray and a couple of empty beer bottles.
I wish Winamp was on Android so I could use it on my phone, too. Especially if it had Milkdrop Visualizer.
I used to host my own Shoutcast. Full on DJ cosplay, like it was FM radio. 🤣
That's what I did for my wedding - shoutcast with a requests plugin so the wedding party and guests could choose what songs to play.
I wouldn't be suprised if there's a ProjectM port. It's in Debian.
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Yup. Not on F-Droid, though.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.psperl.prjM&hl=en_US
https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm