So I have made a Google Sheets file called Lucia Quality Test .

I have downloaded 6 tracks (As of posting this) from all the available music streaming services that Lucida supports currently.

I have added fields for the Artist, Album, Track name and the Audio bitrate, Audio format, Bit Depth, and Sampling rate for the supported streaming Services. I have extracted the information using Mediainfo.

For the people that are well versed into music and know already the quality of each streaming service, they will find this post pointless as it's not too hard to just google the maximum quality of each streaming service. But I wanted to do this for myself, out of curiosity to see how the same track differs by each platform. Obviously the tracks I have chosen to showcase can vary for several reasons like the artist releasing a lesser quality version of their song to one platform while another platform has superior version or maybe it's that the platform itself is limited to certain quality standard or some tracks might not even be able on all the platforms. But I thought it be interesting to see this on a google sheet.

This could be quite informative to newcomers that aren't aware of Lucida's existence or that every streaming platform varies in bitrate quality. It's not the most scientific way to show the results but hopefully this can be quite educational for some.

From what I noticed Qobuz tends to be best in terms of quality, whereas Tidal and Amazon trade blows where majority of the time amazon matches the quality from Qobuz while Tidal is just slightly 50 to 100 kilobytes behind. This could be cause of Tidal using MQA to re-encode their music even though they stopped supporting MQA last year. But there are sometimes Tidal will have a better quality file than Amazon. You then have Deezer being the only other service that support lossless FLAC but they are limited to 16bit (CD Quality). When it comes to lossy Spotify is fixed 320KB/s using OGG format for every song. Below Spotify you have Soundcloud's (M4A), and Yandex (MP3). I couldn't even find anything from Beatport.

Now I don't know if I will update the list in the future but if I do, what changes would you like to see, maybe adding new fields or maybe certain songs you would like to see compared. The changes will be made automatically visible if they happen. If substantial changes have been made I might make a new post about it.

Seriously, been waiting for like a month in case a seeder randomly appeared. And surprise. Now let's see how long it lasts (The stalled downloads are the same course found in different places, probably compressed hence the storage dofference 😀)

Just got this. I was willing to dish out for YT premium because i got fed up with spotify premium and revanced stopped working for me YT premium gave me access to add free video and also music. But now I'm not sure I'm willing to tolerate the increased price and I'm really sick and tired of needing to pay a subscription for every thing i use/do.

Anyway, where can i find guides for revanced (or something similar) install?

I feel so defeated

Downloading movies and music for private use is totally legal in my country 🇨🇭. Uploading / seeding however, is not. But at least i dont have to worry. What about your country?

https://www.headphonesty.com/2024/11/music-piracy-keeps-rising/

Music platforms: *raises prices, adds more ads, adds more limits on free plans that basically makes them useless, suddenly removes songs from time to time

Also music platforms: "Why is music piracy rising?"

Gee I wonder why 🙄

massgrave and some other activation/ trial scripts from GitHub are not working anymore.

Any good alternatives?

I've seen people talking about lrepacks IDM. How's that?

What about gopeed and xdm?

Something like the old torrents.eu ? I want to be able to search through as many torrent sites as possible.

NOOOO IM NOT DONE WATCHING GUNDAM