Ideas: Higher Audio Quality

[pboser]

How about higher audio quality?  Amazon has introduced this feature, and others have been ahead of Pandora as well.  It would be great to have the Genome Project advantage with higher audio quality.  Do others agree?

Moderator Edit: Edited title for clarity

[cunruh]

I subscribe to Amazon Music and Quboz and truly enjoy the fidelity yet I have all that musical history with Pandora with my customized stations.  Like someone else said, I may have to cancel my subscription and just stay with the free account so that I can revisit Pandora whenever it is that they finally realize that they are losing customers.

[Limey]

Likewise

[fpcalise]

I've been a paid Pandora subscriber for years.  I primarily use Pandora on my Sonos system which has offered Atmos audio for at least a couple years now.  It's time that Pandora offers the Atmos or other lossless quality.  I prefer the stations that I've developed on Pandora over the years but to enjoy the better quality audio I may replace it with Tidal, Amazon or Apple music.   

[Pjd813]

This is absolute nonsense. Pandora is banking on the fact that users like myself have accumulated years worth of fine tuning our channels to a point that makes it daunting to think about customizing anything else satisfactorily. My experiences customizing other services recommendation enginesfalls way short of Pandora. We deserve better qualityaudio. Paying for lesser quality is actually an insult.

[mmarchi21]

I agree.  It's time for Pandora to realize is is 2026 and not 2005.

[samsplace]

Don't blame you,







Steve Sanford

[Tred]

Qobuz has been tested and appears to be the best for pure streaming quality
and resolution but has other drawbacks in Playlist creation and UI is a bit
clunky.

[Tred]

I agree and also agree that the algorithm is better than all the other
streaming platforms I've tried and tried most of them. Just went with Qobuz
for pure quality of stream at hires but have to build my own Playlist
because their algorithm is basic at best.

[Baliandro]

If there'd be a lossless audio option (even 16bit 44.1khz would make a huge difference, or whatever quality the studio mixed the music in) I'd end my Tidal subscription right now, and subscribe to a premium tier at Pandora. The playlists/stations are worlds better here... Such a missed opportunity!