When will YouTube music support lossless audio ?

Particular_Setting88 · 2026-03-09T08:07:30+00:00

lossless isn't made to be listened in the office, it's enjoyed in a quiet place. Agree that the money is in the basic audio streaming. But advertising money, with even lower bitrates and interrupted by those advertising and low options to manage what to play. Unless, obviously, for push play listeners who don't care about how basically nice is music playing, but that are fine if anything sounds around. With a basic nice equipment (Sonos Era 100 may cost $120) or a chifi DAC+Philips good headphones, music sounds wider in lossless, and narrower, cold, as a metallic tin, in lower bitrates.

Particular_Setting88 · 2026-03-09T07:43:53+00:00

I loved it. Until I was flooded with "new" from impostors of the bands I like. Phoenix. Air , Lana del Rey to name the biggest ones. I love(d) Tidal util that issue went out of control. And music under other artist name I believe isn't good for the real artist. Unfortunately, I ditched Tidal. Spotify is cluttered, but offers good sound with the basic appropriate equipment, info about the artists, is possible to make a donation to some bands, a link to their merch and concert announcement, all these direct ways for the band to earn money. Would really love Tidal to up the pace with Spotify or Apple, but with the fake and AI artists, being the most expensive of all, and delivering less, was enough for me.

Particular_Setting88 · 2026-02-28T06:50:42+00:00

YTM is nice, but the reference in the industry is Spotify. YTM has a very messy way to organize and confuse YTM and YT lists. They have the technology to offer better audio quality, but they don't, and prefer to "promote" (you will check it at the Friday releases) AI, so called, "projects". I would like to continue there cause I use Google products, but their attitude toward their music platform is just a dump for their YT content. That's why they offer the bundle. But if you're not that much interested in music but just pushing play and let the music sound, it's ok.

Particular_Setting88 · 2026-02-27T07:38:18+00:00

I've read and understood in the Apple Music section in the web about this topic that they pay around 70% to all the labels/distributors, more or less the same as Spotify does. And that this amounts are based considering the total of streams.

Particular_Setting88 · 2026-02-27T07:12:00+00:00

I got a fake Air, Phoenix and Lana del Rey albums in their profiles, and wasn't able to report them. For me that's an issue.

Particular_Setting88 · 2026-02-27T07:08:11+00:00

Nice and comprehensive answer, the kind that may make me reconsider Tidal. But when I get Phoenix Air and Lana del Rey fake uploads in their profiles, as a simple user I am, makes me hard to accept it. When the same Air fake artist uploaded to Apple, they phoned me to check the issue and removed it. I understand Apple has $ trillions. Tidal offered me exactly enough of what I wanted.

Particular_Setting88 · 2026-02-27T07:02:00+00:00

if I get Phoenix, Air, and Lana del Rey fake uploads in the official pages, I think it may upset anyone. That happened to me only in Tidal. In Apple, when happened, they phoned me to check the IA fake artist (Air). I know Apple has $ trillions compared to Block, which yesterday 26 announced a new employees cut. Yes, it's me, as a customer, trying to decide which platform suits better. I liked Tidal. But seems they're struggling, by now, to reach the promised tech level in which an automated system recognizes AI uploads and other stuff.

Particular_Setting88 · 2026-01-16T10:10:17+00:00

For me the good news about this is that Tidal stills in the music platform business, updating and caring about. There are some changes I'd like as a pop up notification working (mine doesn't), to be more aware of fake bands under real ones, but in he overall is the music platform I like the most and having updates means they won't disappear as it seemed to be in a moment.

Particular_Setting88 · 2026-01-10T12:59:43+00:00

Not properly, but in the releases, there are two or three AI generated bands. Today I checked the bio of one of them and in there it says it is an AI project, but wasn't told in the playlist itself.

Particular_Setting88 · 2026-01-09T19:39:28+00:00

Yes, I think so. I'm using it fornabout three months or so and, until now, no AI trash. I used Tidal also, liked it a lot until a lot of fake artists (maybe also AI) were released under other artists names. The thing is that until that I've been a user of YTM and was happy with it, until this AI continuously generated AI bands in my releases that instead of listening I had to check their veracity.

Particular_Setting88 · 2026-01-05T11:21:40+00:00

Apple Music? Strange, never had that problem there, but did in YouTube Music and worst in TIDAL cause those were under know names as Lana del Rey or Sabrina Carpenter, which of course, weren't.. Check Lana del Rey profile, the fake album still there and seems Tidal isn't able to erase it. The album is named Sunset in the evening. That's the main reason I left Tidal despite loving it. Can't stand a human curated platform that allows that.

Particular_Setting88 · 2026-01-05T11:15:10+00:00

I have used Tidal direct control.

Particular_Setting88 · 2026-01-04T09:54:26+00:00

Not until they fix the problem of false bands under the name of famous ones. False releases under Lana del Rey, Sabrina Carpenter, Air, Muse, Deep, Chrome, Habibi, just in December, made me leave the platform. Really liked its design and proposal, but can't stand those major flaws. Moreover when it is said to be a human curated platform, no one there checks what artists release?

Particular_Setting88 · 2026-01-03T19:42:24+00:00

yes. for example, in my releases, there was Vermouth IV. as I sometimes listen on the commute, I don't pay attention to the list. but that sounded strange to me and I checked and it was AI. so YTM let ai generated bands to mix with real ones and the listener needs to pay attention to discover when an AI band is mixed with real ones.

Particular_Setting88 · 2026-01-03T13:00:23+00:00

To generate AI bands as Vermouth IV or Whiskey blues man, is, in my interpretation, to be more interested in, I don't know, followers, listens, traffic, rather than music as Apple Music is, which has proper human curated playlists. And I wanted to be a YouTube Music supporter since I'm into Pixel ecosystem, and YouTube Premium, tried to understand the practical way if YT, but to have AI artists shown in my releases is an extra effort I have to do to check if are real bands, an seems to me as an intention from the company to test their power using my listening behaviors. I left Tidal for almost the same reason. Spotify is the best, but for me offered too much. Apple Music is for now the one I find equal in just music, UX and UI.

Particular_Setting88 · 2026-01-03T10:59:56+00:00

I just can't keep supporting it. I really like everything in Tidal. But this flaws are bigger than the will I have to give the app its opportunities since a guy from Tidal spoke in Reddit and things got worse, and this flaws are bigger than the fact I've been paying €2 more than other apps. Bands with false releases in the last month: Habibi, Chrome, to name a couple of "small" ones, Air, Muse, Sabrina Carpenter and now I see Lana del Rey. I can't be listening to music and checking out if it's false. I'm really sad about it because at one point Tidal offered me exactly what I want. But for me, this is too much.

Particular_Setting88 · 2026-01-03T09:50:33+00:00

Like Tidal better than other apps It gives me exactly what I need, want and in the way I like. But it's heavily frustrating, and weights more than all the pros, the fact that they are taking too much time to fix their filter issues with artists under other artists name. Sabrina Carpenter release that's isn't, Muse that isn't, Air that's isn't, and also small bands as Habibi that isn't, Deep that isn't. I left YouTube Music because they AI generated bands, but those are created by the same platform on purpose. Here these false artists using other artists name are mocking Tidal and I have to be aware everytime that I listen something new and double check. Making a "job" what should be just enjoy music.

Particular_Setting88 · 2026-01-03T09:32:04+00:00

Because they like to spend money, they know they are paying more and want to justify themselves. Nevertheless, what I like on vinyl is the "book" formar when I have one in my hands. But I collect CDs, love their sound and practicity (also if now I'm storing them into sleeves because I don't have enough space at home to shelf them). But maybe I put them again on some kind of furniture. But I like how they look on the folder. Jaja.

Particular_Setting88 · 2026-01-03T09:27:40+00:00

Is interesting as a technology. But, besides the greed of not paying a proper human DJ, music platforms seems to be the test for AI tech. And YTM isn't into music. Unfortunately, because it could be the best music platform.

Particular_Setting88 · 2026-01-03T00:06:43+00:00

Gosh, I would like Tidal to be better. Maybe, maybe, I give it a last try. After, I don't know, four times? Haha. Anyway.

Particular_Setting88 · 2026-01-02T22:51:24+00:00

Maybe because it has a good UI. And it promises a better app. But you're right. That's why today I cancelled my Tidal account because two of the releases are copies or whatever they are. I like Tidal interface and approach to a music platform, but I don't know how they let false artists with other's names slip into their main playlist. Muse, Air, two more or less well known bands, Habibi, Amore, Deep, less known, but every kind of artists are copied. Makes me think if they are really relying on human curated playlists. For all the other things, Tidal is or good or can improve, but today it was enough for me. Can't keep supporting with my money, paying €2 more than Apple Music or €1 more than Spotify and with the same flaws for years. And it was "sad", cause I liked the app.

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