Spotify Looked to Ban White Noise Podcasts to Become More Profitable
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An internal document shows that white noise podcasts account for 3 million daily consumption hours on the platform
    • yacht_boy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      I love YouTube music. I get all the same songs as the other big services, plus free YouTube premium. Between my jam and habit and my quixotic quest to teach myself woodworking, I watch a LOT of YouTube videos.

      • dbilitated@aussie.zoneEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I switched back to Spotify after google music disappeared.

        too much crossover between random youtube videos and actual high quality music

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Doesn’t Spotify cap out at like 192kbps? I got sucked into Apple Music once I heard it had lossless music.

        • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          81·
          1 year ago

          I can absolutely hear the difference between 192 and lossless with any of my too-many-pairs-of nice headphones! Not at all with my AirBudz though.

          I can absolutely not tell in my car or my partner’s, despite us both having high-end sound systems (theirs is 2kUSD+ and I can’t even tell in there!)

            • deranger@lemmy.worldEnglish
              6·
              1 year ago

              Bit depth affects noise floor, not frequency range.

              You are correct that the noise floor of 16 bit is well within the limits of human hearing, making 24 bit redundant outside of production.