#Spotify hifi 320kbps
Spotify has been tight-lipped about any potential launch, bar a Status Update that promised the platform would “deliver a Spotify HiFi experience to Premium users in the future. Streams from Spotify and Apple Music use compressed file formats with relatively low bitrates, such as 320kbps Ogg Vorbis streams on Spotify Premium (if youre a Spotify Free user, your file quality will actually max out at 160kbps) and 256kbps AAC files on Apple Music. The official announcement of Spotify HiFi was February 2021. First announced back in February 2021, Spotify HiFi was described as a way for Spotify Premium users to upgrade their sound quality to a CD-quality, lossless audio format. Spotify would seem miserly charging double the current price tag unless they offered some seriously sweet perks. Higher quality audio has become industry standard. Just after Spotify’s initial announcement early last year, Apple Music upset the, er, apple cart by offering HiFi for no extra cost, with Amazon Music quickly following suit. The problem is, Spotify’s competitors aren’t charging any extra for lossless audio. A transcript from AlphaStreet shows how Ek revealed the reason in. He shed some light on the situation while speaking to analysts and investors during the companys earnings call in February 2022. The answer came from Spotifys CEO, Daniel Ek. Would anyone pay $20 for Spotify with HiFi? Spotify in February announced plans to introduce a new 'HiFi' premium tier sometime in 2021, and while the company declined to offer a date, there. At the beginning of 2022, Spotify revealed the reason behind delays in launching its HiFi tier. Apple Music not only launched lossless audio but. The survey shared with me details of Spotify’s upcoming subscription tiers available and asked if I would switch back “in the next 30 days” for one of these features.” Spotify announced in February that they were launching a Hi-Res tier called Spotify HiFi in late 2021.
9to5Mac quotes a user named Drew as saying: “I received a survey from Spotify today after cancelling Spotify Premium for Apple Music after 10 years with Spotify.
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