You do realise, assuming you ripped to a lossless audio format, your cd rips are 8-12x more accurate than anything streamed of Spotify?
Maybe in theory. In practice, the difference will be very hard to hear (for most people, in most scenarios). Have you ever done an ABX test to determine whether you would be able to tell the difference between lossless and Spotify's quality?[1]
I did, a while back, and while I was able to tell the difference somewhat reliably for music I knew well (and only for that kind of music), the effort and time I had to spend on finding the minute differences, even with high-end equipment, convinced me that for everyday listening, Spotify was completely fine for me.
AccurateRip is a pretty important feature imo. Like at least I know someone else in the world made a rip which was exactly the same as mine regardless of the optical drive we used. Overkill? Maybe but there is some kind of "safeness" to it
How did you calculate a factor by which lossless is better than lossy?
>...How did you calculate a factor by which lossless is better than lossy?
I specifically typed accurate, not better.
>...How did you calculate a factor by which lossless is better than lossy?
>I specifically typed accurate, not better.
Yeah OK, that's just wording. Which two factors did you specifically compare, that gave you the 8-12x figure?