What we got was a platform TikTokified, with the company officially announcing a new scrollable layout, extra Spotify exclusive podcasts and the AI DJ app – a feature that adds an MC, blends and other algorithmic personalisations to playlists.īut, what we didn’t get, was any word on Spotify HiFi.

The presentation showed us a bunch of creator tools, user features, and new programming available on the service, but we previously suspected that. There was a lot of speculation that if Spotify HiFi were to arrive anytime soon, it would be announced at the company’s annual Stream On event on 8 March. We even got a Billie Eilish featuring ad and everything.Īs 2023 rolled on, when it came to HiFi, Spotify remained pretty silent on when we’ll be able to wrap our ears around its higher-quality tunes. The high-quality streams would, the company said, be “rolling out in select markets later this year”. Spotify HiFi rumours have circled for years, but in February 2021 a new tier was officially announced that offered CD-quality music using a lossless compression format. It aims to preserve the detail and nuance in the music at the cost of not reducing the filesize as much. Lossless compression means that, once the app has decompressed the stream, nothing is lost. Spotify sounds good, but its tunes are still compressed, and this can strip out some of the vibrancy from the music.

Standard or free users get a maximum of 160kbit/s through the Spotify apps, or 128kbit/s through the web player, while premium subscribers get 320kbit/s in the app or 256kbit/s on the web. Spotify already has a few quality tiers, and they correlate with how much you’re prepared to pay for the streaming service.

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