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Yeah to be honest it's only really hifi nuts that would rather listen to a full bit rate flac rip than the lower bit rate on Spotify.
I confess to being one of said hifi nuts having a huge library of music ripped to flac that I still opt to play over the same thing on Spotify.
But as I say, it's questionable whether the difference in sound is is going to be very apparent to the average Joe.
Admittedly I'm using Spotify more and more these days.
Out of interest why do people bother streaming from local discs? I understand if you have vast amounts of live bootlegs or rave tapes, but pretty much everything standard seems to be on Spotify.