“We know that HiFi quality audio is important to you. Instead, Spotify provided an update on its community forums that suggests HiFi i isn’t close to launching. Even if most people can’t tell the difference between lossless and high-bitrate compressed music, it indicated Spotify was paying more attention to sound quality.Īt the time, Spotify said that HiFi would launch “later this year” and that it would have “more details to share soon.” Yet we’ve started a whole new year, and Spotify HiFi is still nowhere to be seen.Ī few days ago, the company made one of its first comments about lossless since its original announcement. With the introduction of lossless audio, Spotify would increase its credibility among audiophiles, not just casual listeners. Of note is that the company also announced that it has upgraded its availability footprint quite a bit, as it says it’s expanding to 85 new worldwide markets, across Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, Europe and Latin America.Spotify Hifi’s announcement in February of 2021 seemed poised to shake up the streaming industry. The company has been collecting hi-res files from labels for more than a decade, but hasn’t put that enormous advantage to much use yet. Spotify HiFi may be a game changer in that it might finally get Apple Music to offer higher resolution audio as standard. Of course, how an artist gets paid for streams in a higher tier has not yet been announced either. If the tier is truly “high-definition,” then the process will no doubt change in order to ingest larger file sizes and different resolutions. If the resolution is only CD quality, artists and labels are already submitting at 44.1/16 quality, so there should be no difference in the process.
There’s also been no announcement as to how artists can begin to submit files for the new tier. Having more users in a higher margin tier would be a boon to the company’s bottom line at a time when it likes to have Wall Street’s full attention. Spotify provided no details as to pricing, but the standard for a hi-def tier for other platforms has been $19.99 per month. One of the things that I find fascinating is that many services promote CD quality as the end-all, while others like Tidal, Amazon Music and Qobuz have evolved past that and offer a true high definition 96kHz/24 bit experience. Although there were very few specifics given, the company did say that high-definition audio was one of the most requested features that they’ve received.Īudio quality on Spotify currently tops out at 320kbps, so a lossless audio tier would be quite welcome to frequent users (hopefully they’ll be able to hear the difference). Spotify announced that it will be launching its new Spotify HiFi CD quality lossless audio tier later in the year. Spotify HiFi CD Quality Audio Tier To Launch
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