![]() ![]() “There are things you will not hear if you don’t have a good sound system. “High-quality audio means more info,” Eilish said during Stream On. But its widest reach is expected to see it become the most successful. ![]() Spotify teased a high-resolution streaming option in 2017 to select US customers for an extra $7.50 a month The new feature plays catch up with rivals like Sonos Radio, Tidal, Deezer and Amazon Music. This creates an essential flywheel between creators and listeners that is the foundation of our business - and in the end, it is what will propel the audio industry forward.” ![]() “More creators means more audio content for our users to discover. “Having more listeners on our platform creates more opportunities for artists and podcasters to make a living from their work,” Alex Norstrom said, Spotify’s chief freemium business officer. It is working with “some of the world’s biggest speaker manufacturers” to make the CD-quality feature “accessible to as many fans as possible”. Spotify HiFi will allow users to listen to lossless audio on their devices and any Spotify Connect-enabled speakers. These new markets represent over a billion people with nearly half already using the internet, the company said. The streaming service also revealed plans to expand into 85 new markets across Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America/Caribbean in over 36 new languages – bringing the total of its markets of operation to 173. However, Spotify's unintentional teaser last year came to nothing, and users of the streaming service remain as much in the dark now as they did then about when the surface will eventually appear.Spotify HiFi was unveiled during its Stream On livestream overnight (February 22). In May, a tantalizing hint emerged that Spotify was on the cusp of launching its lossless plan after a glitch in the Spotify app briefly surfaced a hidden HiFi media playback menu. However, based on the wording of its latest update, Spotify looks unlikely to offer it as a paid-for upgrade when it does launch, especially given that Apple Music includes lossless listening options as part of its standard subscription price.Īdd to that the fact that Amazon has since stopped charging extra for its own lossless music library, bundling its "HD" tier into all standard Amazon Music Unlimited subscriptions instead, which makes the idea of Spotify asking users to pay more for a similar service seem like a non-starter. But we don't have timing details to share yet.įirst reports that Spotify was working on a lossless audio version of its streaming service appeared almost five years ago, when the company started testing the option with a small group of users.īack then, promotional screens pitched the "Spotify Hi-Fi" tier as a $5-$10 upgrade to a standard Spotify subscription. We feel the same, and we're excited to deliver a Spotify HiFi experience to Premium users in the future. We know that HiFi quality audio is important to you. Understandably, Spotify users recently took to the service's community forums to ask for more details, to which Spotify responded: ![]() However, 2021 came and went with no sign of the high-bandwidth audio experience on Spotify and no update from the company on when it would launch. According to Spotify, the feature will offer CD-quality music that will let fans experience more depth and clarity in their favorite tracks. Spotify users waiting to learn when the service's delayed "HiFi" premium audio service will materialize currently remain none the wiser, after the company responded noncommittally to requests for more information on its user community forums.īack in February, Spotify announced plans to introduce a "HiFi" premium tier by the end of 2021. ![]()
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