Apple, Tidal, Deezer, and Qobuz all already offer lossless tracks. If and when Spotify does add lossless audio, it’ll still be behind its competitors. Premium currently costs $9.99 per month in the U.S. When Spotify tested lossless audio in 2017, it proposed a surcharge of $7.99 for the added quality. It’s also not clear from this response if Spotify plans to roll out high-quality audio for all its Premium subscribers, or if HiFi will be a separate Premium tier. That being said, “e don’t have timing details to share yet.” We feel the same, and we’re excited to deliver a Spotify HiFi experience to Premium users in the future.” During its live Spotify Stream On event today, the streaming music company announced that it will launch Spotify HiFi, a new option for its premium subscribers. In a reply it pinned to the top of the thread, Spotify said, “We know that HiFi quality audio is important to you. A new wave of comments on a community forum entry originally posted way back in 2014 makes it clear users are wondering what exactly is up with HiFi.Īnd Spotify’s response is…less than informative. The service will let you know if your connection can support hi-res streaming.Spotify announced HiFi last February, and said it was aiming for a release sometime 2021.īut 2021 has come and gone, and the people are not pleased. The video below shows what Spotify HiFi will look like when it’s launched. Spotify HiFi was supposed to arrive later this year, but 2021 is rapidly drawing to a close. Spotify’s onboarding process has been leaked. Will they gain the interest needed for success if they charge extra for it? Your average music listener probably doesn’t care all that much to pay more than their premium cost, so it will need to capture the attention of those willing to pay for the quality. IMHO, this indicates Darko may be right, and thats been. Did he have inside info Spotify did bump the prices for their Premium tier a bit in the meantime. Or, if they will choose to include an extra fee to access their HiFi audio. About 2 seconds after Spotify announced HiFi, John Darko - who probably knows a bunch of upper-echelon folks at Spotify - suggested they could well add it for 'free' to their Premium tier. If the Premium tier goes CD-quality at 9.99/month and they offer high-resolution. It isn’t confirmed yet whether Spotify will follow their competitors like Apple Music and Amazon by offering this feature for no extra cost. If Spotify comes out with an upgraded HiFi tier at 14.99/month, the service will still be playing from behind. However, the longer they leave it, the more attraction Apple will gain. Apple have been driving their focus towards their hi-res audio, and it looks like Spotify will rival this with CD quality sound. When do we want it? Now! It was first announced back in February, and since then things have gone a little quiet.
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