My brother today was streaming his Spotify to my MiniDSP Volumio. The Volumio app was showing 44khz 16bit. Is this try CD quality stream or some conversion? Wondering if Spotify might have released their promised lossless.
Is this a verified information? I’m asking because compressed streams mp3 lossy for example, expanded to 16/44.1 lossless it’s still lossy in the end …
@gags11 would you please try to stream the same track via AirPlay in order to see the bitrate? If the phone is an iPhone and the MiniDSP supports AirPlay of course.
Is this a verified information? I’m asking because compressed streams mp3 lossy for example, expanded to 16/44.1 lossless it’s still lossy in the end …
@gags11 would you please try to stream the same track via AirPlay in order to see the bitrate? If the phone is an iPhone and the MiniDSP supports AirPlay of course.
Sounds good. Thank you. SHD Volumio use AirPlay 1 or 2?
Indeed, this is how AirPlay works in general (e.g in Apple Music) putting the music on pause while we receive a phone call but imho if this will be the way of Spotify Hi-Fi to deliver lossless (16/44.1 via Spotify Connect and AirPlay 1 as well) we can use the other options described in the above link (crossfade, gapless, etc) which is Great!
If we are using Spotify Connect, these options are disabled. Also in Apple Music these options are unavailable at this moment when we are streaming to devices.
Compressed streams will expand to cd rate: 16 bits @ 44.1kHz.
Airplay 2 does not put music on pause while answering calls.
Compressed streams will expand to cd rate: 16 bits @ 44.1kHz.
The stream has to be decompressed somewhere along the way. I assume this is done before the Volumio sees the data. Usually when you decompress you get the original sample rate but the bit-depth is arbitrary because (most) lossy formats don't store individual samples and there is no fixed bit-depth.The Volumio app was showing 44khz 16bit.
Most MP3's are 44khz (sample rate) and 16bit (bith dept). Where they differ from CD is the bitrate: 1,411.2 kbit/s for 44/16 uncompressed audio down to max 320 kbit/s for MP3.