Poor Audio Quality in Canada

[chongw]

Hey guys, I just got Spotify Canada yesterday from an invite. I'm just wondering if anyone else noticed a distinct difference in audio quality between Spotify and other streaming services? I have the 30 day premium trial with high quality streaming turned on as well as an Rdio premium subscription, and it seems that the "high quality audio" option doesn't do anything at the moment because even with Rdio's 192k streaming, Spotify still sounds much worse. Hell, I even compared some Youtube music videos and they still sounded a lot better than the Spotify versions. Hopefully this is just caused by them not having moved all the high quality audio over yet since Spotify Canada is still rolling out, but I really hope to see this fixed since Spotify has a bigger selection than most sites and I've been wanting to switch for a long time.

Anyway, just wondering if anyone else noticed the same thing or if it's just me?

[chongw]

Update: Upon further testing, it appears that this issue does not apply to every track. One album I just tested passed with flying colours and sounded just as if not better than its Rdio counterpart. But other tracks are still performing poorly. So I assume it's just an issue of some tracks have been ported over with it's high quality versions and some tracks only have their basic lower quality versions available for now.

[Peter__]

Unfortunately, Spotify claim that 99% of the catalogue is available in high quality I do sometimes come across stuff that sounds like it was ripped by monkeys too!