Spotify Still Not Sharing Concrete HiFi Audio Plans

Music streaming war centered on Apple Music and ( Now TikTok-fiieid) Spotify has calcified in recent years. Relying on its vast technology empire and close partnerships, Apple has Edge Spotify On streaming features, and Team Green struggling to keep upOne of those features happens to be HiFi lossless audio.According to a new interview with Rival streaming platform Spotify executives have yet to share specifics A lossless audio plan, despite announcing HiFi capabilities two years ago.Granted, it has nothing to do with Apple swooping in on much cheaper HiFi in the meantime.

and interview On The Verge’s Decoder podcast, Spotify co-president Gustav Söderström promised that the streaming service is still planning to release HiFi audio on its platform. It’s been more than two years since Spotify first voiced his streaming ambitions lossless, but Söderström says “the industry has changed for many reasons.”

He added: The industry has changed and we have had to adapt. ‘ That’s all we know A vague kind of HiFi experience is probably “Someday” will come.

Early 2021, Spotify announces plans to launch Super premium Lossless Audio Tier, called Spotify HiFi. This “high-fidelity audio” was supposed to provide CD-quality sound that could reach bitrates of around 1,411kbps. 160kbps for free users and 320kbps for Spotify Premium users.The company hired Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell talk about how awesome “Important” high-quality audio is during the company’s “Stream On” event.

a year later, and Promised HiFi functionality yet nowhere to be seenThat same year, Apple Music released its own version for lossless streaming using Dolby Atmos. Came out at no extra cost to everyone who subscribes userSimilarly, music streaming service Tidal has released its own free subscription tier, Introducing HiFi Audio for Paid Subscribers For $10/month, Spotify Premium. Both Tidal and Apple Music ran a CD bitrate of 1,411kbps.

When The Verge asked Söderström whether it was because of the label’s increased billings, he didn’t name Apple, but he didn’t have to. Instead, the co-president said, “For obvious reasons, we are not authorized to comment on our label deals or what other players in the industry have done.”

Now Spotify wants to do something “own and unique,” said Söderström. He also declined to comment on whether the platform would promote spatial audio. Apple overtook Spotifyeven in another app like apple music classic.