
Pay for a music service and the quality goes up, with Spotify delivering a quality better than most MP3s you might have had in the past, and it’s much the same at the other music services, as well, whether its Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon, or the like.īut if you’re living in Australia, there aren’t a whole lot of options if you want a CD-quality service, with Tidal HiFi more or less providing the higher resolution of a 16-bit CD, plus a little more in the 24-bit world, as well.Īnd that’s an area Spotify could join in later this year, as it announced Spotify HiFi will be coming later this year in select markets. Take Spotify and YouTube Music, with the free versions being supported by ads, but also typically the sound quality being a little lower than what you get if you pay. The moment you pay for music services, you typically get a better quality than the free offerings they have. Spotify is the world’s largest music streaming service, and while I’m not surprised that they’ll offer a HiFi offering, I also figured Apple would get there first.The world’s biggest music service may be popular, but it doesn’t exactly cater to the best sound quality. Spotify HiFi will be an add-on to its premium tiers (everything but the individual account, I guess). Spotify ogosio, e pracuje nad platform do strumieniowego przesyania muzyki w wysokiej rozdzielczoci ju w 2021 roku, ale od 2023 roku wci nie ma sowa o dacie. By comparison, Spotify currently offers a free, ad-supported version of its service, individual accounts for $9.99 per month, Duo accounts for $12.99, Family plans for $14.99, and a Student tier for $4.99. Chocia to wszystko jest bardzo interesujce, nie moglimy oprze si wraeniu, e w kolejnym wydarzeniu Spotify brakowao jednej wanej funkcji: Spotify HiFi. Spotify says the new service will be competitive, so most are betting it will cost about $19.99 per month. Spotify HiFi is described as both “CD quality” and “lossless,” but it’s not clear yet what the actual quality level is. Spotify’s service today tops out at 320 Kbps, which is considerably better quality than most purchased MP3 titles, but a far cry from the lossless quality offered by Amazon Music HD, Tidal, and a few other niche streaming services. It’s really important just because we make music that wants to be heard the way that it was made.”

“There are things you will not hear if you don’t have a good sound system. “High-quality audio means … more info,” the ever-eloquent recording artist Billie Eilish says during a promotional video for the service.

Spotify announced today that it plans to release Spotify HiFi, a lossless audio tier of its music streaming service, sometime in 2021.
