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Hi-res music streaming services compared: which should you subscribe to?
Hi-res music streaming services compared: which should you subscribe to?
Tidal, Qobuz, Amazon Music and Apple Music all offer hi-res streaming tiers, but which deserves your monthly fee?
The battle to become the best music streaming service when it comes to offering hi-res streams is well and truly underway. Gone are the days when all a streaming platform had to do was offer up low-quality Ogg Vorbis or MP3 streams and make you endure a few ads for the privilege.
Today, the key to victory is ad-free, hardware-supported streaming in high-resolution audio quality – and, crucially, for the best price.
So where does the arrival of these newer, competitively priced hi-res services leave Tidal and Qobuz, and even services not in the hi-res game (Deezer 'only' offers CD quality, and the delay of Spotify HiFi leaves the world's most popular streaming service with some of the poorest-sounding streams)?
First things first, should you care about hi-res streaming? High-resolution (often shortened to 'hi-res') audio is a term used to describe music files that have a higher sampling frequency and/or bit depth than that of CD quality, which is specified at 16-bit/44.1kHz.
So a hi-res file can be 24-bit/44.1kHz, where bit-depth is higher than CD quality but the sampling rate is the same, and vice versa.
The highest quality MP3 has a bitrate of 320kbps. A 24-bit/192kHz file takes that to 9216kbps. Music CDs are 1411kbps – remember, they're your starting marker for hi-res.
Although hi-res audio songs and albums have been available to download for several years now, streaming hi-res audio is relatively new across popular music subscription platforms – and some still don't offer it.
While the terms 'lossless' and 'hi-res' may be used in close connection – Apple Music has launched Lossless and Hi-Res Lossless labels and, to complicate matters further, Amazon Music prefers the terms HD and UHD when referring to its more premium audio offerings – music that is 'lossless' is not always hi-res.
·whathifi.com·
Hi-res music streaming services compared: which should you subscribe to?
Why 24 bit/192kHz Music Downloads Make No Sense - VideoProc
Why 24 bit/192kHz Music Downloads Make No Sense - VideoProc
In this guide, we will mainly talk about some information about 24 bit/192kHz music and show you why 24 bit/192kHz music downloads make no sense.
Decades ago, all mp3 encoders were really bad by today's standards. Plenty of these old, bad encoders are still in use, presumably because the licenses are cheaper and most people can't tell or don't care about the difference anyway. Why would any company spend money to fix what it's completely unaware is broken?
·videoproc.com·
Why 24 bit/192kHz Music Downloads Make No Sense - VideoProc
Spotify’s AI DJ Has No Soul
Spotify’s AI DJ Has No Soul
Plus: YouTube Music is finally adding podcasts, and Google Photos lets more users remove annoying friends from their pictures.
·wired.com·
Spotify’s AI DJ Has No Soul
Parallel Compression
Parallel Compression
Parallel compression is a powerful mixing technique, but it’s often misunderstood. Read on to find out what it really does — and how it can help you make better mixes.
·soundonsound.com·
Parallel Compression
Critical Schrödinger Cat Code: Quantum Computing Breakthrough for Better Qubits
Critical Schrödinger Cat Code: Quantum Computing Breakthrough for Better Qubits
Scientists from EPFL have proposed a breakthrough error-resilience scheme for quantum computing, known as a "critical Schrödinger cat code." This novel system operates in a hybrid regime, exhibiting enhanced error suppression capabilities and impressive resistance to errors due to random frequency s
·scitechdaily.com·
Critical Schrödinger Cat Code: Quantum Computing Breakthrough for Better Qubits
New superconducting diode could improve performance of quantum computers and artificial intelligence
New superconducting diode could improve performance of quantum computers and artificial intelligence
A University of Minnesota Twin Cities-led team has developed a new superconducting diode, a key component in electronic devices, that could help scale up quantum computers for industry use and improve the performance of artificial intelligence systems. Compared to other superconducting diodes, the researchers' device is more energy efficient; can process multiple electrical signals at a time; and contains a series of gates to control the flow of energy, a feature that has never before been integrated into a superconducting diode.
·phys.org·
New superconducting diode could improve performance of quantum computers and artificial intelligence
Unprecedented Transmission Speeds – Scientists Develop New Quantum Key Distribution System
Unprecedented Transmission Speeds – Scientists Develop New Quantum Key Distribution System
Integrated photonics-based quantum key distribution system paves the way for network deployment. Scientists have crafted a quantum key distribution (QKD) system rooted in integrated photonics, allowing for the transmission secure keys at unprecedented speeds These initial, proof-of-concept experime
·scitechdaily.com·
Unprecedented Transmission Speeds – Scientists Develop New Quantum Key Distribution System
Butterfly Effect in Quantum Realm Disproven by Simulating Quantum ‘Time Travel’
Butterfly Effect in Quantum Realm Disproven by Simulating Quantum ‘Time Travel’
Evolving quantum processes backwards on a quantum computer to damage information in the simulated past causes little change when returned to the ‘present.’ Using a quantum computer to simulate time travel, researchers have demonstrated that, in the quantum realm, there is no “butterfly effect.” I
·scitechdaily.com·
Butterfly Effect in Quantum Realm Disproven by Simulating Quantum ‘Time Travel’
QRDA: Quantum Representation of Digital Audio
QRDA: Quantum Representation of Digital Audio
Download Citation | QRDA: Quantum Representation of Digital Audio | Multimedia refers to content that uses a combination of different content forms. It includes two main medias: image and audio. However, by... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
Quantum Representation of Digital Audio
·researchgate.net·
QRDA: Quantum Representation of Digital Audio
Quantum Image Teleportation Protocol (QITP) and Quantum Audio Teleportation Protocol (QATP) by using Quantum Teleportation and Huffman Coding | IEEE Conference Publication | IEEE Xplore
Quantum Image Teleportation Protocol (QITP) and Quantum Audio Teleportation Protocol (QATP) by using Quantum Teleportation and Huffman Coding | IEEE Conference Publication | IEEE Xplore
In order to transmit images and audio securely, the authors present the Quantum Image Teleportation Protocol (QITP) and Quantum Audio Teleportation Protocol (QATP), which utilizes the Quantum Teleportation (QT) technique combined with Huffman Coding. The QITP secures the teleportation of quantum states of an image while simultaneously encrypting and decrypting them using Huffman Coding since it is only possible to recover or decode data if the prefix codes are known. To test their approach, the authors transformed pixels or RGB values from digital images into text, which was then fed into the Huffman Coding Technique. It has the advantage of compressing the entire text, which makes it faster to transmit vast amounts of information. This work also demonstrates the Quantum Audio Teleportation Protocol (QATP) with and without Huffman coding. For proof of concept, experimental evaluations were performed for both suggested QITPs and QATPs (Standard QITP, QITP with Huffman Coding, Standard QATP, QATP with Huffman Coding), using IBM Quantum Assembly Language (IBM QASM) Simulator and real quantum hardware using the Quantum Information Science Kit (Qiskit), a quantum computing platform.
·ieeexplore.ieee.org·
Quantum Image Teleportation Protocol (QITP) and Quantum Audio Teleportation Protocol (QATP) by using Quantum Teleportation and Huffman Coding | IEEE Conference Publication | IEEE Xplore
Classical and quantum compression for edge computing: the ubiquitous data dimensionality reduction
Classical and quantum compression for edge computing: the ubiquitous data dimensionality reduction
Edge computing aims to address the challenges associated with communicating and transferring large amounts of data generated remotely to a data center in a timely and efficient manner. A central pillar of edge computing is local (i.e., at- or …
·springerprofessional.de·
Classical and quantum compression for edge computing: the ubiquitous data dimensionality reduction
Realization of a quantum autoencoder for lossless compression of quantum data
Realization of a quantum autoencoder for lossless compression of quantum data
Download Citation | Realization of a quantum autoencoder for lossless compression of quantum data | As a ubiquitous aspect of modern information technology, data compression has a wide range of applications. Therefore, a quantum autoencoder which... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
·researchgate.net·
Realization of a quantum autoencoder for lossless compression of quantum data
Quantum computing in music: simulating acoustics, designing instrument
Quantum computing in music: simulating acoustics, designing instrument
Quantum computing could revolutionize music production and sound engineering. Its potential applications include simulating acoustic environments,designing.
Improving Audio Compression Audio compression is an essential process in music production and distribution, as it allows for smaller file sizes and faster streaming. However, current compression algorithms can lead to a loss of sound quality. Quantum computing could potentially be used to develop more efficient compression algorithms that preserve sound quality while reducing file sizes. The parallel processing power of quantum computing could be particularly useful in this application. By simultaneously processing large amounts of data, quantum computers could potentially identify and eliminate redundancies in the audio data that are not perceptible to the human ear.
Music production and sound engineering are areas that have greatly benefited from advancements in technology, and I believe quantum computing has the potential to revolutionize these fields.
·sahilkhan-1679777475631.hashnode.dev·
Quantum computing in music: simulating acoustics, designing instrument