Linux Desktop Client Missing Lossless Audio Support

[jesse1231]

Hi Spotify Team,

I'm excited to see that lossless audio has finally started rolling out to Premium subscribers! However, I've noticed that the Linux desktop client appears to be missing this highly anticipated feature.

According to the September 10, 2025 announcement, lossless streaming is available on "mobile, desktop, and tablet" - but when I check my Linux Spotify client settings, there's no option to enable lossless quality under Media Quality settings. The highest available option is still "Very High" rather than the new "Lossless" setting mentioned in the announcement.

As a Linux user and Premium subscriber, I'd really appreciate having feature parity with other desktop platforms. Many Linux users are audiophiles who would greatly benefit from 24-bit/44.1 kHz FLAC streaming, especially since we often have high-quality audio setups.

Could you please confirm:

1. Is lossless support planned for the Linux desktop client?
2. If so, what's the expected timeline for this feature?
3. Are there any technical limitations preventing lossless on Linux specifically?

I understand the feature is rolling out gradually, but it would be great to know that Linux users aren't being left behind on this major Premium feature enhancement.

Thanks for your time and for continuing to improve Spotify!

[Baykite]

Its back to Very High on Fedora 😭 Sad!

[gietece]

Flatpak version is lossless (fedora 43)

[no4b]

Why would you set the sample rate to anything other than the one that matches the source if you're not using EQ? With EQ it might be reasonable (to avoid aliasing), but otherwise you'll only hurt sound quality.

[Thelonewolf581]

Finally got it on my phone but I use my good headphones on my PC and would really like it there.

[anthonyschuler]

This fixed it for me, thanks! Also noticed that it now also shows "Lossless" under the track name like on other platforms.

[jqbbibgm1ytnb2ivtaji]

Raising the sample rate of the computer allows the chip in your DAC to run at its maximum. This prevents the DAC itself doing any upscaling. Also using the highest possible sample rate actually reduces aliasing. When up-scaled with the high quality algorithms that you have on your computer, the extra interpolated samples really do help high frequencies to be reproduced more accurately, making aliasing almost impossible. A high clock rate also makes any minor fluctuations in the clock much less significant to the sound quality (the infamous Jitter' - that audiophiles bang on about). When I made recommendations for audio settings you will notice that I also chose to set the resample quality to 10. I believe this assigns more processing time to computing those interpolated samples. It may be an issue for some audio editing roles or playing games, but for pure HiFi listening even the most modest PC can handle the task.  

[no4b]

You clearly misunderstood some things. The audio provided by Spotify is already processed and mastered to prevent aliasing. So if you are not using EQ or another form of sound manipulation that might add frequencies above Nyquist you shouldn't upsample it yourself at all.