Spotify CD quality / HIFI / Lossless streaming 16bit 44.1khz

[Cavazz]

I am testing Qobuz at the moment with CD quality comparing to HiRes, difficult to say if HiRes worth the price but coming back to Spotify 320Kbs quality is a real pain...

Is Spotify going to align to the market outsiders (Qobuz, Tidal, Deezer, etc..) and propose AT LEAST CD quality or will they carry on thinking that it is a niche market... considering that all these outsiders are no threat to their customer base?

My personal deadline is January 2019 , if no announcement, bye bye Spotify... I don't stay with an arrogant leader not listening to part of its customers and not properly reading market trends. I feel sorry for my wife and Children but they will have to adpat to a new streaming service.

I am joking, I know they won't have any problem switching to another streaming service...

[MattSuda]

Good news!

Spotify has announced that later this year lossless quality is coming and it will be called Spotify HiFi

Check out my blog post about it

Check out this news article for more information:

Five Things to Know About Spotify HiFi

[marc_masoni06]

Hello, I have been patiently waiting the whole of 2021 for spotify HIFI feature. I have bought top hifi gear last year. I waited because I trusted spotify annoucement early 2021 that we would have it by the end of that year. I am happy to pay a bit more for this. The whole family has used Spotify for years so  it's a pain to loose so many favorites and playlists. Unfortunately I am about to change for Qobuz anyway, unless Spotify soon makes an accurate official statement on when hifi will be available in France and I will trust Spotify communication once more (but last if anymore lies).

I am quite disapointed, to be honnest.