It’s the year 2021. Numerous streaming providers are now offering a hi-fi option to offer lossless audio streaming. With Spotify, however, a large streaming provider does not yet have a corresponding subscription level to offer.
In February 2021, the Swedish streaming service announced Spotify HiFi with great fanfare as a streaming option with high audio quality. Spotify Hifi is scheduled to start in 2021. Then what happened? Right, nothing. Almost a year later, you still can’t present a timetable, now another year has passed since the presentation, Spotify HiFi is still just an announcement.
Two years later and Spotify, once a pioneer in music streaming, is lagging behind in other areas as well. The Verge has now learned that Spotify HiFi has been up and running for well over a year. The entire music catalog has been reissued and the technical requirements have also been “largely completed”.
Apple Music or also Amazon Music now offer HiFi at no extra cost. Spotify HiFi, on the other hand, was originally intended to start as a more expensive subscription option above the standard tariff. You probably let yourself be spit in the soup. According to the colleagues at The Verge, Spotify plans to continue to offer a lossless listening experience in the future. However, the industry has changed since the announcement, according to Spotify co-president Söderström. You will have to adapt and bring a hi-fi option when it “makes sense for us and our listeners”.
In the meantime, it is said that Spotify probably still has a more expensive subscription level in mind, but then it has to deliver more functionality. There is support for spatial audio or Dolby Atmos or advantages in the area of audio books or podcasts. So additional advantages to justify a more expensive subscription level. Let’s see if we can at least get around the corner in a timely manner. In my opinion, the pace of development at Spotify has definitely slowed down and the focus is on many other things, but little on new (useful) functions.
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