Streaming Services

Music

Name	Formats	Comment
Deezer [^1]	MP3 64kbps (Free) 128kbps (Free) 320kbps (Premium) FLAC (HiFi) 16/44	Sometimes serves hires lossless.
TIDAL [^2]	AAC (Standard) 320kbps FLAC (HiFi) 16/44 all of the following formats are lossy MHA1 ~ 360 Reality Audio (HiFi) EC-3 ~ Dolby Atmos (HiFi) MQA (Master)
Apple Music [^3]	AAC 256kbps ALAC up to 24bit up to 192kHz EC-3 ~ Dolby Atmos	Sometimes serves lossless upscaled to 32bit. Uses FairPlay DRM.
Amazon Music [^4]	AAC 64kbps 128kbps 256kbps OPUS 64kbps 128kbps 320kbps FLAC (Music HD) up to 24bit up to 192kHz MHA1 ~ 360 Reality Audio (Music HD) EC-3 ~ Dolby Atmos (Music HD)	Sometimes higher quality tracks are merged from other releases producing mixed quality releases. Sometimes tracks have prepended null samples: - 286 samples for 44kHz - 312 samples for 48kHz - 624 samples for 96kHz - 1248 samples for 192kHz Uses Widevine L3 DRM.
Qobuz [^5]	MP3 (Studio, Free Preview) 320kbps FLAC (Studio) up to 24bit up to 192kHz
Spotify [^6]	AAC (Web) 128kbps (Free) 256kbps (Premium) OGG (Desktop, Mobile) 24kbps (Free) 96kbps (Free) 160kbps (Free) 320kbps (Premium)
KKBOX [^7]	AAC 192kbps 320kbps FLAC up to 24bit up to 192kHz	Only available in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia and Japan. Lossless not available in Japan. 14-day trial
SoundCloud [^8]	MP3 (Free) 128kbps AAC (Go+) 256kbps

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[^1]: Deezer — https://support.deezer.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003865685-Deezer-Audio-Quality [^2]: TIDAL — https://support.tidal.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002599997-What-Audio-Quality-Do-TIDAL-HiFi-Plans-Offer [^3]: Apple Music — https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212183 [^4]: Amazon Music — https://amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=GW3PHAUCZM8L7W9L [^5]: Qobuz — https://qobuz.com/nl-nl/audio-quality [^6]: Spotify — https://support.spotify.com/us/article/audio-quality/ [^7]: KKBOX — https://help.kkbox.com/tw/zh-tw/technical/technical-others/2668?p=kkbox [^8]: SoundCloud — https://help.soundcloud.com/hc/en-us/articles/360051838074-High-Quality-streaming