Spotify Hi-Fi launch imminent

Does the fact that the rips are bit perfect identical regardless of how the mac is powered account for anything?

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This topic of bit perfect is like the one about power cables making any difference. You have to try it on a high resolution system and decide for youself rather than someone coming here to convice you. Exactly as ripping to SSD or HDD… same bit perfect but distinguishable sonic differences.

Believe what you want to, it obviously works for you. Pink unicorns placed near the listening position also makes a huge difference.

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What if you offered analytics? Songs in personal libraries (with user consent obviously)? Songs skipped? Playlists created?

“Owning the user experience” is generally a euphemism for capturing detailed information about the consumer that can be sold to advertisers and others. Their business model depends on this revenue. Also, the major record labels own 18% of Spotify, and user data is very valuable to them.

If Roon serves as a user interface for Spotify does that limit their ability to capture and sell consumer data? If so, good luck getting Spotify to cooperate with Roon.

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I would venture the answer is yes. Focusing on this, I think their “Spotify Connect” design is actually brilliant: by allowing you to control any renderer with a common interface the both increase the coverage of their data collection (compared to the standard Spotify implementation on Sonos for example) but additionally the data does not need to be translated from one interface to another (ie the usage data out of a completely different interface is likely different).