It’s also worth focusing on that select markets bit as it means we won’t see Spotify HiFi going live in every territory at the same time. However we’ve been waiting quite a while for another official update, and with the end of 2021 fast approaching Spotify is running out of time to keep its promise.
Spotify hifi upgrade#
“Beginning later this year, Premium subscribers in select markets will be able to upgrade their sound quality to Spotify HiFi and listen to their favorite songs the way artists intended.” Spotify HiFi release dateĪccording to a Five Things to Know About Spotify HiFi blog post, Spotify says the new service will be available later in 2021 – and it will be available as an upgrade to Premium. In any case, Spotify said that the service would be available “later in 2021” when it was first announced, so an imminent release date certainly isn’t out of the question. While the video hasn’t been verified as legitimate by Spotify, the fact it’s leaked at all suggests that the new HiFi tier will be launching very soon. More recently, a video that seems to show a welcome tour of the new streaming tier has been leaked online. It was posted by Reddit user Nickx000x (via What Hi-Fi?) with the caption ‘Here’s a sneak peek at the upcoming HiFi onboarding process from modifying the app’, and appears to give prospective HiFi users a backstage tour of the service:
The shared images show the HiFi icon in the lower right corner of the app and includes text about music playing at 16-bit/44.1kHz quality – though the reader says music wasn’t playing in lossless quality. While we’ve not been able to validate the images ourselves, the quality, font, variety and content suggests strongly that these are genuine. Recently, TechRadar had a reader email us photos of Spotify HiFi in use. Ready to make the leap to lossless? Here’s everything we know about Spotify HiFi.
Spotify hifi Offline#
The silver lining? We have good reason to believe that Spotify HiFi songs will be available to save and download to your devices for offline listening, which means you should be able to take your new lossless music library with you anywhere. Spotify hasn’t said exactly how much the service will cost just yet, it sounds like it’s going to be more than the basic Spotify Premium price of $9.99 / £9.99 / AU$11.99 per month and there’s no guarantee that every song in the entire Spotify catalog will have a HiFi version available. Unfortunately, even when Spotify HiFi does release it will only be available in “select markets” to start. However as of yet nothing has been officially announced, and with the end of 2021 fast approaching Spotify is running out of time – leaving us to wonder where the heck is it? We’ve seen screenshots of the Spotify HiFi logo in the app as well as a Spotify HiFi onboarding video leaked by a Redditor. Recently, we’ve seen several signs that Spotify HiFi is close to launch. Higher-resolution audio is something Apple and Amazon have also addressed recently when the companies made Apple Lossless Audio and Amazon Music HD available to Apple Music and Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers at no extra cost – which could be a sign that they’re preparing for the launch of Spotify HiFi. The service, unveiled earlier this year, will deliver some of your favorite songs in lossless, CD-quality audio to close the gap to services like Tidal.Īccording to Spotify, high-quality music streaming is consistently one of the most requested new features by its users who, previously, have been limited to 320kbps. For fans of high-fidelity audio, Spotify HiFi could be the Holy Grail.
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