Wikiwand - Comparison of music streaming services

Audio Streaming Quality

Service	Supported Formats	Max Streaming Quality	Tracks	DolbyAtmos
Spotify	OGG	320kbps	100+ mln
Apple Music	AAC, ALAC	24-bit/192kHz	100+ mln	Yes
Tidal	MQA, AAC, ALAC, FLAC (coming)	24-bit/192kHz	90+ mln	HiFi Plus Tier
Deezer	FLAC	16-bit/44.1kHz	90+ mln
Amazon Music HD	FLAC	24-bit/192kHz	100+ mln
Qobuz	AIFF, ALAC, FLAC, WAV, WMA Lossless	24-bit/192kHz	100+ mln
YouTube Music	AAC	256kbps	100+ mln

Android Audio Quality Note:

Android OS resamples all streams to 48 kHz unless you have specific workarounds enabled (aka USB Audio Player Pro that supports Qobuz and Tidal pass through).

Edit: The Tidal APP implementation in Android gets around the 48 kHz resampling issue (is the only one that does this).

Streaming Quality Note:

Spotify is lossy tout court: OGG, 320kbps
Apple Music is lossless: ALAC, 24-bit, 192kHz (but could have problem with sample rate switching on MAC and playing lossless on Windows at all)
Tidal is lossless*: ALAC/FLAC, 16-bit (HiFi Tier) / 24-bit (HiFi Plus Tier), 44.1 kHz (HiFi Tier) / 192 kHz (HiFi Plus Tier), Only tracks that DO NOT HAVE Master badge (Only HiFi badge). Is Bit perfect on ALL Platforms.

*Not only MQA is basically snake oil, but it MQA Ltd. has gone into administration. In a recent AMA (ask me anything) Reddit session, Tidal CEO Jesse Dorogusker answered numerous queries about the company's future plans for MQA and hi-res audio. According to Dorogusker:

“We will be introducing hi-res FLAC for our HiFi Plus subscribers soon. It's lossless and an open standard.”

All APPs were tested on Android 13 (One UI 5.1)

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