Spotify versus Napster SQ.

[icehockeyboy]

Just about to post to say that I'm sure the SQ of Napster is audibly lower than Spotify, then I did a back to back comparison of a Pink Floyd track, Breathe, and now I don't believe I can hear one!
Ok, so the track may not be that good in the first place, but I've come to a couple of conclusions, one, that Napster, despite being a lower bit rate is as good as Spotty, or I'm a bit Mutt and Jeff! :)

Anyone here using Napster, and what are your thoughts?

[AlanS]

Are you using Spotify Premium?

[icehockeyboy]

Are you using Spotify Premium?

Yes, you have to don't you....to use it on the Touch?

[Stratmangler]

Yes, you have to don't you....to use it on the Touch?

That's right.

[Stratmangler]

I've just been playing around with Napster, and it doesn't appear on my server.
I can get to it via www.mysqueezebox.com , and as is well documented on this forum, I don't go there because it's unreliable.

I'll start the server on the other machine and see if it's just a NSA310 thing, or whether it applies to Windows based servers too.

[Fi-Wi]

In what way is MSB unreliable? I have no problems with it and my SBT is fed by MSB 99% of the times.

[Stratmangler]

In what way is MSB unreliable? I have no problems with it and my SBT is fed by MSB 99% of the times.

The number of crash reports that appeared on the Squeezebox forum make me nervous about it.

[Stratmangler]

Onto the Napster experiment ...

I can access Napster from the Windows server interface, even though it is named as Rhapsody.
I have it playing now.

I have even compared Napster streaming to Spotify, and all I have to say Craig is that the brief comparison I did points to Spotify having superior sound quality.
I used the latest Daft Punk album for comparison purposes.
Neither sound a good as a rip of the original.

[icehockeyboy]

Maybe it was because I was using a track originally 40 years old?

The thing is, even if Napster is inferior, I have not encountered the problems that plagued me with Spotify!