We have good reason to believe that Spotify HiFi songs will be available to save and download to your devices for offline listening, which means you should be able to take your new lossless music library with you anywhere. While we've not been able to validate the images ourselves, the quality, font, variety and content suggests strongly that these are genuine.
More recently, a video that seems to show a welcome tour of the new streaming tier has been leaked online. While the video hasn't been verified as legitimate by Spotify , the fact it's leaked at all suggests that the new HiFi tier will be launching very soon. In any case, Spotify said that the service would be available "later in " when it was first announced, so an imminent release date certainly isn't out of the question. According to a Five Things to Know About Spotify HiFi blog post , Spotify says the new service will be available later in — and it will be available as an upgrade to Premium.
However we've been waiting quite a while for another official update, and with the end of fast approaching Spotify is running out of time to keep its promise.
The short answer is that the service will hopefully be available later this year, but which devices will be available at launch remain a heated topic of conversation until Spotify update us — whenever that happens.
The company says that it will unveil more exact details later this year so, for now, all we can do is speculate. Amazon Music Unlimited and Apple Music are a bit cheaper and now include lossless streaming options, and it's possible Spotify HiFi could be around the same price when it launches later this year. So just how good will Spotify HiFi sound?
Spotify has promised to launch Spotify HiFi "beginning later this year", but that's as specific as it has been. It hasn't said exactly when in , but its phrasing perhaps suggests it will be nearer the end of the year rather than imminently. The words that jump out there are "select markets". Spotify is currently available in some markets and in 60 languages, so chances are Spotify HiFi will land in different territories at different points throughout the year and perhaps into The good news for subscribers in the US and Europe is that Spotify typically launches new features in those key markets first.
And in August, a leaked video , posted online by a Reddit user, seemed to offer an brief tour of the streaming giant's much-anticipated lossless audio tier. The second video suggests that Spotify Connect will be "the best way to listen to HiFi". The Spotify HiFi release date could also depend on the type of device you use. Spotify HiFi will deliver higher quality streams through Spotify Connect , so it's possible that newer Connect-enabled devices such as the PlayStation 5 could get the HiFi upgrade before certain older devices.
Plenty of rival music streaming services already offer their own CD-quality subscription tiers — and let's not forget, Apple's new Lossless tier is free to all Apple Music subscribers — so while Spotify's popularity and consequent existing subscription base could see Spotify HiFi front the pack before long, price will no doubt be a key factor in its uptake.
The veteran music streaming outfit is yet to announce the all-important monthly fee, although it recently hiked all of its prices. What we can do is speculate on what the company might charge, based on Spotify's new and daunting competition. Could Spotify match or even undercut that temptingly low monthly fee? It probably should, considering the Amazon service also offers hi-res higher-than-CD-quality streams — something Spotify hasn't alluded to including in its HiFi offering.
Then again, Spotify is effectively the Coca-Cola of music streaming so there's no reason for it to get into a price war with Amazon, a company with some of the deepest pockets in tech. Deezer announced a permanent price cut to its HiFi streaming tier back in May So why would Spotify undervalue itself? Rival services will no doubt hope it's closer to the latter.
Good news: whatever the monthly fee, some sort of Spotify HiFi free trial is likely on the cards — most probably, we would imagine, for both Spotify Premium users looking to upgrade and new Spotify users who may have historically been put off the service due to its lack of higher-quality audio. On the latter point, those who have found high-quality haven in rival services such as Tidal and Amazon HD may well need teasing away from their probably highly personalised profile.
Spotify already offers a 1-month free trial of Spotify Premium , while Amazon Music HD recently offered new subscribers a 3-month free trial. Tidal offers users a day free trial, while Deezer dangles a 1-month free trial in front of visitors to its website.
Given that bitrates for lossless audio can be around kbps, Spotify HiFi should be a big step up from existing Spotify Premium quality, which maxes out at only kbps. For the initiated, lossless audio files carry more data, consequently richer in detail.
Spotify announced Spotify HiFi back in February , but with no release date other than 'some time in '. Then in August, a leaked onboarding video see below , suggests that the streaming giant is about to awaken the new feature. Spotify HiFi delivers CD-quality sound through the use of lossless codecs. At present their streaming maxes out at kbps, which is fine for casual listening but those of us with quality audio systems want to get as much out of them as possible - hence the excitement!
That part isn't clear. Spotify have said it's launching in 'select markets' in Are we one of them? We might find out in mere days.
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