grego.speiser wrote: > Grooveshark files are max 128 kbps mp3s. > > See > help.grooveshark.com/customer/portal/articles/2130-audio-format-and-bit-rate-on-grooveshark > > Despite this limitation, I would welcome the possibility of accessing > grooveshark through our squeezeboxen.
This is a correction, but one that should make you happy. If you follow the link you posted and re-read it, it says, "All music upload by users to Grooveshark is transcoded into an MP3 file with a MINIMUM bit rate of 128 kbps" (CAPS added by me) I'm a frequent user of Grooveshark and I'm very serious about music quality, so I've been tracking this. I've found MANY GS tracks at 192-320kbps so there appears to be no maximum. Of course, all tracks are mp3 format, so there's no lossless tracks available. This is the #1 reason I prefer Grooveshark over Spotify!! I can get the highest possible quality track as a free Grooveshark user. I can only get high quality tracks as a $10/mo premium Spotify user and even then less than 1/3 of all tracks are available at that bitrate. Spotify free tracks are 100-160 kbps. As far as I'm concerned anything under 160 kbps isn't worth listening to unless it's absolutely the only source for that track. So I very rarely use Spotify and am likely to continue to favor GS over Spotify unless something changes. Source: articles.businessinsider.com/2011-07-25/tech/30046520_1_kbps-quality-songs (this is my first post so I'm not allowed to post links, but you can copy and paste them manually) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ falconsoars's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=55529 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93648 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
