It’s been so lengthy since Spotify introduced a lossless HiFi tier that many assumed the streaming big had merely scuttled the characteristic, however now there are hints that HiFi should launch, and maybe comparatively quickly.
In response to a submit on Reddit, a longtime Spotify person who had lately ditched the service for Apple Music claims they received a survey teasing a brand new plan–“Spotify Platinum”–that boasts HiFi, amongst different options.
As first reported by 9to5Mac, the survey says Spotify Platinum contains “the whole lot” within the $9.99-a-month particular person plan, in addition to:
HiFi
Studio Sound
Headphone Tuner
Audio Insights
Library Professional
Playlist Professional
Restricted ad-Spotify podcasts
As you may guess from the “Platinum” moniker, the (purported) new plan wouldn’t come low cost: suppose $19.99 a month, or double the price of Spotify’s particular person Premium plan.
In response to the Redditor, the survey requested whether or not they would change again to Spotify ‘within the subsequent 30 days” for Platinum or one other Spotify plan, suggesting that the brand new tier might launch within the close to future.
Spotify first introduced Spotify HiFi method again in February 2021, calling it a method for Spotify Premium customers to “improve their sound high quality” to a “CD-quality, lossless audio format.” Spotify promised that HiFi would arrive earlier than the tip of 2021.
However Spotify was crushed to the punch by Apple, which rolled out lossless and hi-res music streaming plus spatial audio in Could 2021, for no further cost over its normal Apple Music plans.
On the identical day that Apple made its announcement, Amazon Music stated it will drop the premium cost for its personal lossless, hi-res, and spatial audio choices.
Spotify has been largely silent about its Spotify HiFi plans following its preliminary announcement, though in a January 2022 assertion, it stated “we don’t have timing particulars to share but” a few launch date.
It’s not clear what a number of of the potential options listed within the leaked survey would do. “Studio Sound” could possibly be a reference to hi-res (24-bit) audio, versus the CD-quality (16-bit) sound that Spotify tapped for HiFi. Or it might imply spatial audio, a characteristic that Spotify has but to say so far as Spotify HiFi is worried.
We’ve reached out to Spotify for remark.
