![]() It’s weird Spotify is keeping the timeline under wraps for the HiFi tier’s release. You can read how the music streaming service stacks up against its competitors here. ![]() That being said, Spotify still offers numerous other features in its favour. Since it’s going to cost more than $10 per month, the price for Apple and Amazon’s top-tier offerings. The Swedish music streaming giant said the high-res music option would launch by the end of 2021, but since that year has come and gone, it’s become unclear when the feature will release.ĩto5Machas discovered a Spotify forum thread where a moderator mentions that Spotify doesn’t have any “timing details to share yet.”Īs disappointing as this delay is, I’m not sure how much of a draw Spotify’s HiFi offering will be for listeners. And that may be the main reason behind the silence.In a bid to keep up with Apple Music and Amazon, last year, Spotify announced it would begin to offer a new high-fidelity Music tier for an additional cost. In short: good chance Spotify won’t get any complaints if HiFi never comes at all. But for a streamer, that’s just a drop in the bucket when it comes to subscribers. Sure: audiophiles who have learned(!) to listen more critically can. This means that many people can’t even tell the difference between lossy and lossless. Furthermore, bitrates of compressed streams are pretty much maxed out on all music streamers these days. In all these cases, due to compression losses of Bluetooth codecs, you will never fully benefit from a better sound quality anyway, even if the source is lossless. Listening in a car – also via Bluetooth – is a popular activity too. Or they connect via the very same Bluetooth to a mediocore hi-fi set or wireless speaker (think teenagers, camping and so on). The vast majority of subscribers to a music service listen through headphones, usually a wireless Bluetooth one.
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