Quality AirPlay/Spotify

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Hello!

I have a question concerning the quality using Airplay and Volumio2. When i stream the music stored on my phone i think the quality might only be as good as the iphone sends it over wlan to volumio and of course how good it is stored on the iphone. Whats about the spotify app? There i can also use volumio as output device. So is the iphone loading the music over the spotify app and then sends it to volumio? I am just not sure if this might be bad for the quality?

So, what do you guys think what’s the best way to use spotify and volumio?

thanks,

Philip

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Hi Philip, yes if you use spotify via airplay, the quality will be less optimal than using the native spotify implementation of Volumio…
Definetely, use spotify on Volumio UI to get the best quality result…

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Hey!

Thanks for the fast answer! I just thought i would be nice to use the search function on the spotify app, but i will try the UI :slight_smile:

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For that you need Spotify Connect functionality which happens to be developed as a Volumio Plugin (and works great). See Topic spotify-connect-plugin-old-volumio-login-with-winscp-t4524.html

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Hi Michelangelo,

Please could you clarify why exactly streaming Spotify from an iOS device via Airplay to Volumio reduces quality? From what I have read I thought that Airplay should stream losslessly from the source.

cambridgeaudio.com/blog/dif … -bluetooth

Many thanks

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Hurley92,

I’ve been trying to get an explanation about this too.

Can anyone out there explain why Spotify Connect is better sound quality than Airplay?