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Does Spotify have a way to see if your computer is recording with your DAC's stereo mix? And if so, is there a way around it?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

They could add an imperceptible audio watermark

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

But how would they detect that watermark being recorded by a complete separate process or hardware output?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Which might be good for detecting if somebody somewhat widely distributed a recorded copy, but not if it was just for personal use. Also, if the capture process creates loss there's a good chance it might degrade the watermark as well

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Not even just the capture process. Re-encoding the track to release it into anything lossy, even at a high bitrate, is going to destroy anything that’s inaudible. It would be like trying to read the microprint on the photocopy of a photocopy of a bank note. It’s not going to happen.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Just lossy compress it slightly. Completely gone.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Record with two devices, compare and strip everything away that they do not have in common

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Depends on the watermark tech used, for example Cinavia is resilient to compression.