Flac Support

[LaoTzu]

will spotify be upgrading to flac support soon? and streaming in flac for higher quality music? if so spotify would be a leader in sound quality and would set it apart from other competitors. please consider this.

[battant22]

Hello,

I'm a spotify premium user.

Could I now select the flac quality option or sould I do a spotify update before ?

Thanks for your support

Best regards

battant22

[battant22]

For me, the FLAC quality option sould be only avilable for a classic spotify premium user

Best regards

battant22

[AngelNavas85]

Hey Spotify

2016 should be the FLAC year!!!

[battant22]

Hello,

I hop that 2016 will be the year with the Flac implementation

Best regards

battant22

[FDK]

OK, but now we have listen the difference between FLAC and WAV and it is
very stupid, but WAV is the clear winner, sorry!

[domenico]

Ehm, no! FLAC is lossless compression AKA no difference.

[user-removed]

Yeah there's zero way you could tell the difference between FLAC and WAV. You're experiencing what's known as 'expectation bias', there's 100% no way you'd be able to tell the difference in a blind test. Sorry!

[FDK]

We have a very(!) expansive Audio-High-End-equipment. With this, you can
clearly hear the diffent between Flac and WAV.

[domenico]

Sorry, but I think you are lying now. 😛

[doctordyna]

I'd also like to add that I'd appreciate having flac support in the player. I understand if they don't want to implement it as a streaming option (although, that would be nice) however not being able to add files in my existing library is stupid.

[battant22]

Hello,

Why don't implement Flac as an option for music streaming ?

Thanks for your answer

Best regards

battant22

[jejjej]

I just want to play my offline FLAC-music via Spotify. Especially since all of my purchased music aint avaible on Spotify. But no one cares. 

[FDK]

You want to playback your own music over Spotify?! Why? it give so many
straming-software (apps) witch can do it bether!

[jejjej]

Spotify is my main source for music. I Dont want to use several apps, simple as that. 

[doctordyna]

Simply, it's because now I've switched to Spotify as my main source for music in my home theater / media room, and I use the android spotify app as a remote to control spotify connect in an AVR, and I'd like to be able to add my music to it, so when I come across an album spotify doesn't have, like blue man group's Complex (Which seems to have been added overnight...did my complaining have anything to do with it? who knows.), I don't have to go into the other room, open the folder and launch it with vlc.

Flac is free, there's absolutely no reason why the developers can't add support for it. It's 2016 now. Audio playback software, especially one that's paid for via subscription should be crippled in this manner.

I want my existing library to be accessible through the app / remote. Not 50% of it, all of it. It's one file type.

Add it already.

[Abbud]

The saddest part is that this feature is so simple to implement, that if this were an open source ptoject, I would already have done it by my hands.
Even considering quitting again my premium signature as I'm using way too much more my flac library.

[1183661080]

totally agree. i use spotify 100% of the time but some tracks i have locally in flac that are not in spotify. having to use a separate app just sucks.

[ummu123]

I was wondering what data you referenced to arrive at the 99.9% figure?

[doctordyna]

Is that a big deal, like, if someone posts a figure that's wrong, does that mean flac support isn't necessary for a modern audio player application?

[williamsk]

I really want FLAC support for local files in Spotify!

There are lots of albums that don't exist in Spotify's streaming library.  When I buy those, they always get copied to FLAC on my hard drive.  But if I want to use those albums in Spotify (so they can be part of playlists or whatever), I have to convert them to crappy MP3 and keep two copies of them on my hard drive.

😞

There doesn't seem to be a good solution out there for mixing streamed music and local lossless files (unless Apple Music in iTunes has improved since the free trial ended, but I'd still have to convert from FLAC to M4A lossless).  Someday someone is going to get it right and that's who will get my premium subscription - I hope it stays Spotify!