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Cake day: August 4th, 2023

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  • I have tinnitus. It manifests as a sharp sinewave as well. For a week however, the frequency of the sinewave dropped. It sounded exactly how a medium frequency sinewave from my phone, at around maybe 500 mhz( actually its hz) , and it could go down to around 400. It was just for that week, and then it stopped.

    Your comment reminded me of that, and I thought it’s an interesting enough story









  • In Romania, they are removing mqa content making everything flacs, which in my opinion is good*, as mqa is lossy compression, labeled as “max”. I don’t know about the rest of the world, but it might help you.

    I have not seen any artists on spotify that weren’t on tidal. I do not know about the experience on other music services.

    *Quick rant. Mqa cannot be played on browsers, and as such, some of my favorite albums could only be played at CD quality on my desktop computer (running linux). For this reason, I consider this change a good one.


  • I do feel i need to mention 2 things:

    1. Tidal pays artists way more than spotify or apple music. source

    2. Tidal offers more in terms of audio quality as well. Admittedly, while most of their catalogue maxes out at CD quality FLACs (16-bit, 44.1 khz), they offer up to 24-bit, 192 khz FLACs.

    I will, however add that, in my country, Romania, there is no tidal for free, and there is no tidal plus/hi-fi. There is one subscription, named TIDAL, that covers all of the features, at the same price of 24 RON, equivalent to around 6 USD. However, paying from the app, instead of the website, Google takes a cut and the price is higher, so subscribe from the website.

    As for the Apple ecosystem, I cannot comment on that, because I don’t use an apple device.