How disgusting, 256kbps even only for premium subscribers:
"Right now if you stream at Normal quality, you are getting 128kbps AAC as your bitrate. For premium subscribers, we offer High quality which is 256kbps AAC. If you have flaky network connectivity or want to save data, you can switch to low quality which is 48kbps HE-AAC. 256kbps AAC is equivalent in audio quality to the 320kbps CBR mp3 that we had for GPM, but it uses less data."
Once bought Lady Gaga's first album as a Japan-edition. Was pretty boring having then the opportunity to listen to some of the tracks still sounding much better (in their same original mixes) on the producer Rob Fusari's website.
Since then I only get me some collector's stuff on CD and vinyl.
Vinyl nowadays is only about nostalgia. Only in the eighties and early nineties it was the better possible medium for quality audio.
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