![]() However, 2021 has been and gone with no addition of HiFi audio. Spotify HiFi release dateĪccording to a Five Things to Know About Spotify HiFi blog post, Spotify said the new service would be available 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. 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. 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, nothing has come of the original announcement, and now that we're well into 2022, Spotify HiFi's absence is particularly concerning. 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. So, there’s a good chance Tidal HiFi Plus will get an audio upgrade.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. A YouTuber by the name of GoldenSound took the time to test the format and found that MQA wasn’t as good as the company claimed it to be. Some have gone as far as referring to it as snake oil. There has been some controversy regarding the validity of MQA actually being lossless. They seem to appreciate that Tidal will be offering, what some might consider, a true lossless audio format in the service’s highest tier. Users’ response to this change has been mostly positive from what we can tell. Dorogusker also said in the AMA that the service will provide new “controls” over FLAC files, seemingly allowing a way for users to adjust their size. In a recent report from Digital Trends, a company spokesperson told the publication that Tidal is adding hi-res FLAC as an alternative and that the existing MQA catalog will continue to be available on the platform. Switching over to a file format with a larger size than MQA is going to change a lot on the platform, but for now, things will stay mostly static. ![]() ![]() However, Tidal has confirmed that the existing MQA catalog will continue to be available on the platform and that it is simply adding hi-res FLAC as an alternative. This worried Tidal users as it could have spelled the end of HiFi Plus. The company behind the digital music tech, MQA Ltd, recently announced that it was entering into administration, which is the British version of Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US. MQA, or Master Quality Authenticated, is an audio format that allows studio-quality sound to exist on file sizes smaller than FLAC. Music on HiFi Plus, which is more commonly referred to as Tidal Masters, currently runs on MQA, a controversial format that appears to have been a hot topic in the AMA. The small file size of FLAC is already available on Tidal in the standard HiFi tier, where songs are said to have CD-like quality. This is important as these platforms need to have enough room for millions of tracks. FLAC, which stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, is a digital audio format that can offer studio-quality sound without requiring a lot of storage space. Tidal CEO Jesse Dorogusker recently announced in a Reddit AMA that the streaming platform will soon be introducing hi-res FLAC audio to its HiFi Plus members. ![]()
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