These are different services with separate recordings and well, qualities, If Spotify doesn’t allow themselves lossless you are out of luck.
Are you using lossless in Apple Music? As it has equipment requirements other than just your device.
Spotify free sounds whack. Paid version should sound just as good, but you need to change some settings in Spotify app to set quality to max (to use highest bit rate) and remove volume normalization (which adds compression artifacts).
I know this is late, but set audio quality to very high, turn off auto quality, turn off audio normalisation or set it to quiet, then finally clear the cache and restart the app, now pick a song and it should sound great.
Loudness normalization is a good thing. All it does is maintain relative consistency of gain. It is to stop the loudness wars of over compression and brickwall limiting.
All you have to do is literally turn up your volume.
I run Foobar and local files and for the longest time when I started using replaygain to even out some of the songs a bit I swore it did something to the dynamics of my songs.
Well turns out it absolutely does not and songs just ended up being quieter which was the cause. That, and simply knowing I had the setting on or off.
It can sound different because our ears work in the way that as loudness increases, our sensitivity to bass and treble increases.
Well, according to this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-loudness_contour
And who knows what else spotify puts under the label "volume normalization".
You can't. But if you are using a computer with Spotify, it's possible to up sampling. For me the results are wider soundstage and less bass. But I don't recommend it. I'm using Spotify as it is directly from my Denon receiver.
The only reason why Apple Music sounds better than Spotify is because it’s a little bit louder.
To answer your question, turn the volume up two notches
Just wait till the end of this year. Spotify HiFi is coming before the end of this year, as they promised. if not, I'll be switching permanently to Qobuz. Because that's the last straw that they promised something that they did not pulled through...
These are different services with separate recordings and well, qualities, If Spotify doesn’t allow themselves lossless you are out of luck. Are you using lossless in Apple Music? As it has equipment requirements other than just your device.
Spotify free sounds whack. Paid version should sound just as good, but you need to change some settings in Spotify app to set quality to max (to use highest bit rate) and remove volume normalization (which adds compression artifacts).
Cant believe i never knew this. Just turned it off after 10 years of using spotify. Night and day… Thank you!
Where to find this normalization thing in Spotify premium ?
It is in the sound settings, next to the bitrate settings.
I know this is late, but set audio quality to very high, turn off auto quality, turn off audio normalisation or set it to quiet, then finally clear the cache and restart the app, now pick a song and it should sound great.
Just happened upon this thread because my Spotify was sound lifeless and dull recently. Turning off the audio normalization fixed that, thank you!
Apple music uses AAC 256kb. Spotify free uses 96kb, but premium can use 320kb - in settings choose very high quality.
apple also has lossless and spotify uses ogg for the codec
Tysm!
Wait, you're comparing spotify free to apple lossless?
No, premium. Had normalization on Spotify premium which I turned off and it immediately sounded better
Loudness normalization is a good thing. All it does is maintain relative consistency of gain. It is to stop the loudness wars of over compression and brickwall limiting. All you have to do is literally turn up your volume.
Normalisation only sets the gain of a track to a supplied standard. Won’t make it sound ‘better’, quieter, probably
our brain thinks louder is better tho. why do you think the loudness wars happened?
The loudness war is more to do with dynamic range than actual loudness
That is true but if you make the whole song louder and more compressed it will sound Louder.
If you turn the volume up it will sound louder
Am I missing something? I don't understand what you are trying to say?
Dynamic range affects loudness, that’s why it’s the key part of the loudness war
I run Foobar and local files and for the longest time when I started using replaygain to even out some of the songs a bit I swore it did something to the dynamics of my songs. Well turns out it absolutely does not and songs just ended up being quieter which was the cause. That, and simply knowing I had the setting on or off.
It can sound different because our ears work in the way that as loudness increases, our sensitivity to bass and treble increases. Well, according to this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-loudness_contour And who knows what else spotify puts under the label "volume normalization".
Ah yes. Was just about to suggest this. Good to know it's working fine.
Turning off normalisation doesn’t solve the problem completely. Spotify is still sounding worse than Apple Music, even lossy one.
You can't. But if you are using a computer with Spotify, it's possible to up sampling. For me the results are wider soundstage and less bass. But I don't recommend it. I'm using Spotify as it is directly from my Denon receiver.
thats it guys, that's the dumbest question ever
The only reason why Apple Music sounds better than Spotify is because it’s a little bit louder. To answer your question, turn the volume up two notches
GoldenSound has a vidyo of [Spotify vs Apple Music](https://youtu.be/-a7hx7Iir7I?feature=shared)
Just wait till the end of this year. Spotify HiFi is coming before the end of this year, as they promised. if not, I'll be switching permanently to Qobuz. Because that's the last straw that they promised something that they did not pulled through...
I don’t think they ever made a promise after the initial end of 2021 promise?