It’s basically going to compete directly with. Plenty of Spotify’s streaming music rivals, including Amazon Music Unlimited, Apple Music, Qobuz, and Tidal, offer “high-resolution” music streaming–that is, audio that’s encoded at a higher resolution and sampling rate than CD-quality 16-bit/44.1kHz audio tracks. FebruAdvertisement Spotify HiFi is coming later this year, which is going to be a new tier in its service that will stream lossless audio. Will Spotify HiFi offer high-resolution music streaming? (Apple was completely new to lossless and spatial audio streaming, while Amazon had previously been charging extra for lossless and spatial tracks.)įollowing the Amazon and Apple announcements, the prospect of paying extra (most likely) for only CD-quality music and (probably) no spatial audio began to lose its luster, so perhaps Spotify chose to retreat and regroup. Just three months after the Spotify HiFi announcement, Amazon and Apple both announced (separately, but on the same day) that they would begin offering lossless, high-resolution, and spatial audio music tracks, all for no extra charge. There is another reason that Spotify might have delayed Spotify HiFi: because it got caught flat-footed by Apple and Amazon. Spotify will add a lossless hi-fi option later this year By Simon Cohen FebruDuring its live Spotify Stream On event today, the streaming music company announced that it will launch. “So I can’t really announce any specifics on this other than to say that we’re in constant dialogue with our partners to bring this to market.” With Tidal (NZD$14.99) and Amazon Music HD (NZD$20.95) already providing similar services.“Many of the features that we talk about and especially that’s related to music ends up into licensing,” Ek told investors. Spotify will be the latest music-streaming service to offer its users high-end audio.
The streaming rate you get on Spotify will depend on what device you’re using, your internet connection and whether you’re a Premium member or not. 96kbps for mobile users and 320kbps for Spotify Premium users who have tweaked their settings.īut that’s the thing. The new HiFi audio upgrade will be available in select markets later this year. CDs – a technology that launched in 1979, btw – bitrate is always 1,411 kilobits per second (Kbps). The standard bitrate for Spotify (AAC) is currently 128kbps for free users. Spotify is working to enable HiFi audio for speakers with Spotify Connect. If you’re not sure what any of this means. But according to a blog post on the new service “will deliver music in CD-quality, lossless audio format to your device and Spotify Connect-enabled speakers.” The news was announced via Spotify’s online event, Stream On, and the service promises “CD-quality, lossless audio format.” In-depth details about the new tier are still pretty thin.
Spotify has announced that it will be making lossless audio available to users “later this year” via a new called high-end subscription called Spotify HiFi.
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