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?

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[Tred]

Yep, Pandora algorithm is great. I pay for apple music and many times use
Pandora to create a good Playlist to stream on Apple in hires

Spotify has a nice UI and is good at creating Playlist but Audio quality is
only a little better than Pandora's which is very lacking. Hires audio is
available in Apple music, Amazon, Qobuz, Deezer and Tidal. It depends on
what you're looking for.

[Mugur]

Yes, lossless music please. I only use Pandora now on crappy car audio or bluetooth speaker. On decent stereo system I don't want lossy audio.

[chulohock]

Yeah, I run it in the car while doing rideshare.

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[Ethrealrunner]

I concur with the general opinions posted, Pandora is fine on simple systems but for an 11-channel system utilizing Auro-3D, it just doesn't hold up.  I've been building my stations almost since the inception of Pandora and don't want to leave but need better quality to stay.

[Tred]

Yeah, I posted that quite a while ago and have basically given up on the
prospect of Pandora offering high res. I still like their algorithms for
song lists best of all the music streaming services but it's a waste of my
home audio equipment which is high quality to stream at such a low
resolution so I've opted for Apple music. I still, sometimes, using Pandora
to create a Playlist and then copy it into Apple music to play it at hires.

[Trevor1]

Spotify lossless audio quality has arrived. Pandora can continue to offer the lowest audio quality of any music streaming service or at some point they can wake up and try to finally offer something that is actually acceptable.  

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[mmarchi21]

Yes, after many years I may leave my Pandora subscription given the sound quality vs. Apple Music, Qobuz and others.  Even with the "high" audio quality selection the difference is night and day when listening through my AirPod Pro 3's.  It would be good to know if Pandora has a roadmap to deliver this in the next 6 months.  If so, I would stay and wait.

[Bookman]

I have switched to Spotify for now.  Lossless was just added as music quality option this week.  Spotify has done this quietly and I am listening as we speak.  It sounds good!

[mmarchi21]

Thank you.  I am going to take a look this morning.

[samsplace]

I guess that is what I am going to do, my subscription is coming up and time to look elsewhere.