But as noted by The Verge, an on-boarding video did leak for the feature in August. As well as the high-resolution audio, the email also refers to features such as Studio Sound, Headphone Tuner, Audio Insights, Library Pro. In the second half of the year, we haven’t heard anything from Spotify on the feature. That Platinum plan included a mention of Spotify HiFi. However, it turned out to be nothing.īut also in May, Apple announced Lossless HiFi audio along with Dolby Atmos Spatial Audio coming to Apple Music and quickly launched it a month later at WWDC 21 in June. Spotify never shared how much the add-on would cost but that HiFi would be arriving in select markets “later this year.”įast forward to May and it looked like maybe Spotify was getting close to launching HiFi as users started seeing a “HiFi” icon glitch in the app. At its “Stream On” event, Spotify even got Billie Eilish and Finneas to talk up the feature and said that HiFi audio was one of the top requested features from users. If you can put up with both of those, the app is cleanly laid out and otherwise easy to use, and the streaming quality is some of the best around. For 20 per month, you’d hope it worked better. Meanwhile, Apple Music listeners have been able to enjoy HiFi Lossless audio at no extra cost since June.Īll the way back in February, Spotify announced that its HiFi feature would be an add-on for its premium subscribers. The browser version is fine, but much slower than that of Apple Music or Spotify. However, with just about a week remaining, Spotify is close to missing that deadline. We’re coming up on one year since Spotify announced its HiFi offering that was slated to launch sometime in 2021.

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