“We know that HiFi quality audio is important to you,” a moderator on a Spotify forum said. It was also working with “some of the world’s biggest speaker manufacturers” to make it “accessible to as many fans as possible”.īut by January 2022, the company let it slip of a delay. The company revealed that CD-quality streaming was one of the most requested features by users stuck with 320kbps. Users could listen to lossless audio on their devices and any Spotify Connect-enabled speakers. When HiFi was first announced in February 2021, plans were to drop sometime during the year. HiFi will also include “Studio Sound”, “Headphone Tuner”, “Audio Insights”, “Library Pro,” “Playlist Pro” and limited-ad Spotify original podcasts. The pricing has not been officially released by the streaming giant.īut 9to5Mac and The Verge had screenshots of a survey Spotify has been sharing with some customers about its upcoming subscription tiers.ĩto5Mac cited a Spotify subscriber, Drew, who was shown the prices when he signalled he wanted to get out of his Premium deal after ten years, to move to Apple Music.Īccording to Drew, Spotify “asked if I would switch back ‘in the next 30 days for one of these features.”

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