07/22/2024
One of my favorite Mix/Master engineers compares all the streaming music services in detail today. I especially paid attention to the highest quality. I could not have agreed more with the analysis.
Here is the quality of the services compared:
Amazon Music
Tidal (really close to Amazon and further analysis might make it the same)
Apple Music (surprisingly not quite as good but I think it is quite good)
YouTube (sounds worse than the specs and always seems to alter the tone)
Spotify (the audio is terrible no matter how high the quality. As a side note, this service pays artists almost nothing. If a song has less than 1000 plays it pays them exactly nothing)