Apple, which used to deliver only lossy music streams, announced back in May that it would offer lossless audio all the way up to 24-bit/192kHz (which is considered high-resolution audio, rather than “CD-quality” or 16-bit/44.1kHz audio) along with Dolby Atmos-powered spatial audio, all for the same price as its standard music streaming tiers.Īt the same time, Amazon announced that it would drop the premium pricing rates for its lossless, high-resolution, and spatial audio music tracks, essentially offering the same pricing structure as Apple. In the meantime, other streaming music services have leapfrogged Spotify as far as audio quality goes. But the service has yet to materialize, and Spotify’s audio streams still max out at only 320Kbps in the lossy Ogg Vorbis format. Beginning later this year, Premium subscribers in ‘select markets’, we don’t know where yet, will be able to upgrade their sound quality to Spotify HiFi Streaming service Hifi News - Streaming service Spotify announce. Get the latest news, reviews and tutorials to your inbox. With these newly discovered features, however, it appears the streaming giant might be plotting its launch shortly. For that reason, they have announced Spotify HiFi. Spotify announced its HiFi service in February this year, but the exact release date has been kept under wraps. It's vague enough to mean anytime between now and 31st December. Streaming service Spotify has said that both artists and fans have told them that sound quality is important to them.
I don't think the 'later this year' timeframe has changed. Spotify first announced Spotify HiFi nearly a year ago, with the streamer promising that it would–at last–bring “CD-quality, lossless audio” to subscribers.Īt the time, Spotify said that Spotify HiFi would arrive “this year,” meaning sometime in 2021. The only reason I haven't switched to Apple Music is because of the Spotify Connect feature.
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