Comments on Profile Post by saint.panda

Will they play with Roon? Probably not. One of the issues with streaming is that companies like Amazon, Deezer, Spotify, etc. want you in their "ecosystem" for their own reasons. Thankfully Tidal and Quobuz are motivated (again, for their own reasons) to play with others.

Yes, they lose alot of metrics of how "users" consume the media. Mouse movements, hovering, scrolling, etc. Data is valuable, but is providing a more expensive service worth it? I don't run the numbers, but I enjoy the huge catalog Spotify has, and so does my SO...

Yep, I have my wife and daughter on Spotify - so UI is app/web -and myself on Tidal/Qobuz, front end being Roon (94.683% of the time). Since "hi res" 16/44 and > is a different market than compressed streaming...

Will Spotify, Deezer, etc. (Amazon is probably the odd man out) have to play with demands of the new user market, example being myself who wants better interoperability with other UI such as Roon, etc.?

If Spotify insists on their own walled garden ecosystem like Deezer, they won't get my business...but perhaps that's "ok" with them, who knows.

Spotify has made my music discovery 10 times easier. Kind of locked in now with my playlists but don't mind (yet).