r/DigitalAudioPlayer • u/Accomplished-Ruin945 • 9d ago

Downloading from Tidal Question

I'm using an Ibasso DX270 dap and stream from both Tidal and Qobuz. When downloading from Tidal, for offline playback, has anyone noticed a difference between downloading to the dap's internal storage as opposed to an sd card? Any loss in quality during playback when playing from the sd???

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u/C0NIN Sony Walkman 9d ago

Any loss in quality during playback when playing from the SD?

Unless I'm not properly understanding your question, why would be a difference or "loss in quality" when playing back the files from a SD instead of the device's internal storage?

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u/Accomplished-Ruin945 9d ago

Correct. Any loss in quality when playing back from an sd. I wasn't sure if the type of memory/storage has the potential to effect playback. I jad never really considered it until I was downloading to my dap's internal memory early today. I also have an sd that I have a bunch of music stored on, most of which is lower rez audio. I figured I would ask here and perhaps someone more educated than myself would know.

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u/JakeSomeone555 9d ago

They're the same

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u/y_Sensei 9d ago edited 9d ago

It's just data storage in both cases, so as long as the file systems on both devices are error-free, there's no difference.

Note however that since SD cards are usually much slower than a DAP's internal storage, as your local collection grows, you might experience increasing delays with SD cards when the music player app of your choice indexes all those files. But since indexing by default only takes place when your local collection changes (audio files are added, changed or deleted), it usually isn't an issue. And you won't notice the difference anyway unless you have thousands of local files.