Spotify support as a music streaming service

Streaming Services
#1

I would like Spotify to be among one of the options to stream music on Audirvana
I understand the Audiophile community generally dislike Spotify due to the lossy format, but there’s no denying that Spotify library is far superior in quantities compared others.
I’m bilingual I listen to both Thai and English Music, Spotify simply has more Thai Music and Indie western artist that don’t upload to Tidal. I do have local FLAC and DSD but nothing beats the convenience of streaming[uses both Spotify and Tidal].
One of the wanting factor is Upscaling PCM to DSD feature on Audirvana, I prefer the sound of DSD and really want to upscale Spotify 320kbps to DSD256.

Thank you I hope you take this feature into consideration

#2

By choice Spotify doesn’t allow integration of their service in other applications. The only way is to use Spotify connect, but that too is only for hardware integrations.

#3

Makes sense for them to do so, I mean they millions of user using there app which they can farm information abt there listening pattern.
I guess Audirvana is not big enough because Samsung was able to use there own Music app with Spotify Streaming.
Thanks for the reply!:grinning:

#4

Spotify’s Connect and its recommendations (Discover Weekly and release Radar for me) are absolutely brilliant. Seriously, they are amazing.
However, Spotify’s audio quality leaves a huge amount to be desired.
320kbps audio streaming will never be a patch on Qobuz or Tidal’s offerings.
Even if Spotify were to allow Audirvana to stream its files you would still only be listening to 320kbps OGG-Vorbis material.
Audirvana is an audiophile product. Spotify is not.

I stopped subscribing to Spotify a while ago in favour of Qobuz.
Personally (and I realise that your situation is different) I have only found four or five albums on Spotify that I would like to listen to that are not available on Qobuz.

I still use Spotify’s free (ad-supported) service, but only on a little Bluetooth loudspeaker in the kitchen.
I C&P anything interesting to Qobuz.
I then listen to everything ‘properly’ on my Hi-Fi using Audirvana and Qobuz.

Again, I realise that your situation is different from mine, but since Spotify files will always sound like Spotify files, even through Audirvana, I don’t understand why you don’t just use each product/service for what each is good at.

Happy New Year!

#5

I get that your story is similar to mine, I do use both tidal and Spotify as I want steam my Thai songs.
Then again upscaling from PCM (MP3& flac) to DSD256 had an noticeable improvement in sounds quality, including streaming from tidal. I generally prefer the sound of DSD compared to other away of encoding audio information.

#6

Ich warte auf die Unterstützung von Spotify, erst dann werde ich Audirvana erwerben. Schade, hab gedacht es wäre DIE Lösung.

#7

Sorry dude, I don’t think you understand, I listen to Japanese, Thai songs and even some English songs That are not on tidal and Qobuz and Upscaling from PCM to DSD sounds better , I’m not arguing that Spotify sounds as good it’s not but I just want a better sound for the music that don’t offer a higher quality format.