
The Spotify HiFi service will start later this year and be available as an upgrade to Premium subscribers in select markets, which we are taking as an added cost option.Īlthough it has taken much longer for Spotify to get on the CD-quality+ train with the likes of Deezer and Amazon HD joining the established hi-res streamers of Qobuz and Tidal ahead of it, we are told that “high-quality music streaming has consistently been one of the users' most-requested features”.
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Instead, the service has announced it will offer “lossless CD-quality streams” in comparison to its current offering topping out at 320kbps, whereas Tidal can best 96 kHz / 24-bit audio. Initially, we thought that the Swedish streaming service would come out guns blazing with a quality challenger to Tidal and Qobuz.

Spotify HiFi has finally been officially announced, but it's not quite the hi-res audio streaming service we have been expecting since back in 2018.
