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Amongst the following how would you rate/rank the audio streaming quality that we can use in our cars: Spotify, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Sirius, etc., any others...
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Many services are low bit rate to begin with so you can't improve upon crap

I have SXM and Amzon music set up and it is OK

Even SXM uses lower bit rates on some channels than others.

Amazon seems to work OK but then again, they have different bit rates on some of their stuff.

Kind of like HD radio, I can tell almost instantly when the radio is decoding HD rather than standard analog FM
 
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SXM is OK. The problem is the top 40 crap they play. Sound quality is decent but varies from song to song.

Bluetooth from my phone library varies wildly. Some albums or even entire band catalogs like Gorillaz or Beck sound amazing in the 10 sp. B&O. While other bands from the 70’s sound muddy with no punch.

For me, being ale to curate my own playlist is more important than anything.
 
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I use Spotify premium with best quality streaming and downloads. Sometimes Youtube Premium too, same settings.
I can't tell any difference between them.
 


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Amongst the following how would you rate/rank the audio streaming quality that we can use in our cars: Spotify, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Sirius, etc., any others...
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I forgot….this absolutely shocked me….in my old 06 GT, local FM stations sounded like weak AM….just awful. Same local FM station sounds almost as good as SXM In this car!!
 

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I have youtube music on bluetooth. Average.
I download anything I want to listen to on my phone off of YouTube music. That way it's not buffering or relying on a cellular signal to keep my tunes flowing. I have zero issue with the sound quality in my '24 Dark Horse.

I typically listen to the 5.0 soundtrack over the stereo if I can help it!
 

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I download anything I want to listen to on my phone off of YouTube music. That way it's not buffering or relying on a cellular signal to keep my tunes flowing. I have zero issue with the sound quality in my '24 Dark Horse.

I typically listen to the 5.0 soundtrack over the stereo if I can help it!
Without exposing a known unknown how do you rip a stream (almost sounds like a loaded question but was aiming for grab the sample for l8r reuse, i mean make the offsite backup). But yep, that’s the flow problem with streaming when compared to the responsive sound generated from one’s own efforts. The v8 is so seductive.
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