Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Tidal & Spotty Plugins

2019-01-29 Thread Mnyb
yes spotty fits me . I often use spotify on the go when at work add some new stuff, go home and listens to it via spotty. Then purchase the really good stuff for real and the ok stuff reains as albums in spotify . Really great for exploration of new stuff -

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Tidal & Spotty Plugins

2019-01-29 Thread mcduman
many thanks for the input. i was aware that this was going to be an apples to oranges comparison. just wanted to point out that spotty is an overachiever, coming out on top of the tidal plugin in many instances. may be others have had the same experience with these plugins. meanwhile, the on-the

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Tidal & Spotty Plugins

2019-01-28 Thread emalvick
MnyB hit the nail on the head, and in summary there are a lot of intricacies that impact the quality besides format. I've not tried Tidal, but I do have all my local music in FLAC and run Spotty at it's highest settings. I generally don't tell a difference between the two other than volume (tha

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Tidal & Spotty Plugins

2019-01-24 Thread Mnyb
Hi Spotty has a couple of relevant settings that may impact the experience you can choose up to 320kbps OGG as bitrate/compression this is very good considering that ogg may be better than mp3. It is also possible to turn volume normalisation on/off per player ,this can impact the perceived loud

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Tidal & Spotty Plugins

2019-01-24 Thread bernt
For some reason I prefer Spotty over Spotify via CCA or Airplay. The sound is more "relaxed, fun"...hard to explain, can't put my finger on it.. SB Touch optical to Hegel H90, Boston Acoustics A2 Spare SB3 AirPlay Bridge to Audio Pro A10 SB BOOM @work, AUX, Squeezelite-x connected to h

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Tidal & Spotty Plugins

2019-01-24 Thread mcduman
As a long-term LMS user and Tidal subscriber, I have been streaming Tidal for a while now using first the ickstream plugin and more recently the official tidal plugin (v1.2). I have also been following the development of the spotty plugin with interest and last week decided to give it a first-han