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Dark Matter (song)
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It's hilariously bad, and you're bad people.
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thank God we still have upstanding gems like yourself to make up for it
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They should add Severed Hand to their regular setlist rotation again. The talk about it made me listen to some live versions and this is a great song for the start of the concert.
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i like to listen to my music on the best options immediately available to me in the time and place I am in, as one does.
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Increased it to four stars from three. The Apple mix is much better than the Spotify mix and you can better hear the individual instruments. For the type of song they’re going for it’s well executed. It was also awesome to see it on Hockey Night in Canada. It fit really well.
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Still not on DoTC level, but that’s an all timer for me.
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the voice of wisdomstip wrote:i like to listen to my music on the best options immediately available to me in the time and place I am in, as one does.
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I refuse to have bad sound quality no matter where I am
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i want to download apple music for these better mixes, but i already pay for spotify. and teo services seems a bridge too far
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You can get a free trial. The standard free trial is 1 month, but I think you can get 3 months (at least I did a long time ago through Shazam app). Also 6 months free trial if you happen to buy AirPods or certain other products.stip wrote:i want to download apple music for these better mixes, but i already pay for spotify. and teo services seems a bridge too far
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it surely makes more sense to do the free trial once the album is out
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yeah thats what Im going to do. my airpod free trial offer seems to have expired
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You have 90 days after first pairing your device to take advantage of your six free months of Apple Music.
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yup - and i didn’t, and that’s everybody’s fault but mine.
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everybody else pays for your mistakestip wrote:yup - and i didn’t, and that’s everybody’s fault but mine.
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Guys, you are all kind of proving our points here by talking about how much better it is on Apple music.
OTHER THAN SPATIAL AUDIO/ATMOS - the band doesnt deliver different mixes to different streaming services. If you are listening to just standard apple and thinking it sounds better, that is because apple streams at higher quality lossless rates. Same with Tidal.
Spotify sucks and streams at the lowest quality, even if you bump it in your settings to 320KBS it is still lesser quality. Spotify music is much more compressed and delivered at a lower quality.
so, yess, compression and sound quality and how you listen to music matters.
Also, i got an email saying my Tidal Hi Fi subscription is lowering to $10.99/month. You guys should switch. They also pay artists more.
OTHER THAN SPATIAL AUDIO/ATMOS - the band doesnt deliver different mixes to different streaming services. If you are listening to just standard apple and thinking it sounds better, that is because apple streams at higher quality lossless rates. Same with Tidal.
Spotify sucks and streams at the lowest quality, even if you bump it in your settings to 320KBS it is still lesser quality. Spotify music is much more compressed and delivered at a lower quality.
so, yess, compression and sound quality and how you listen to music matters.
Also, i got an email saying my Tidal Hi Fi subscription is lowering to $10.99/month. You guys should switch. They also pay artists more.
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Are they still just peddling that easter bunny shit?LetMeSleep wrote:And completely ignored California. Bastards.bluestate wrote:Oh damn! Didn't know about thatoneway23 wrote:The fact that the classic line-up of Mr. Bungle re-united onstage last night in Melbourne is infinitely more captivating than this song.
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Strat wrote:Guys, you are all kind of proving our points here by talking about how much better it is on Apple music.
OTHER THAN SPATIAL AUDIO/ATMOS - the band doesnt deliver different mixes to different streaming services. If you are listening to just standard apple and thinking it sounds better, that is because apple streams at higher quality lossless rates. Same with Tidal.
Spotify sucks and streams at the lowest quality, even if you bump it in your settings to 320KBS it is still lesser quality. Spotify music is much more compressed and delivered at a lower quality.
so, yess, compression and sound quality and how you listen to music matters.
Also, i got an email saying my Tidal Hi Fi subscription is lowering to $10.99/month. You guys should switch. They also pay artists more.
I don't think anyone is denying that there's not better sounding alternatives than streaming off your phone with ear buds. But if they are lets all agree that those people are jerks and should be hated.
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got his ass.stip wrote:Strat wrote:Guys, you are all kind of proving our points here by talking about how much better it is on Apple music.
OTHER THAN SPATIAL AUDIO/ATMOS - the band doesnt deliver different mixes to different streaming services. If you are listening to just standard apple and thinking it sounds better, that is because apple streams at higher quality lossless rates. Same with Tidal.
Spotify sucks and streams at the lowest quality, even if you bump it in your settings to 320KBS it is still lesser quality. Spotify music is much more compressed and delivered at a lower quality.
so, yess, compression and sound quality and how you listen to music matters.
Also, i got an email saying my Tidal Hi Fi subscription is lowering to $10.99/month. You guys should switch. They also pay artists more.
I don't think anyone is denying that there's not better sounding alternatives than streaming off your phone with ear buds. But if they are lets all agree that those people are jerks and should be hated.
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