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Spotify HiFi is still MIA after three years, and now so is my subscription
Will 2024 be the year Spotify starts caring about audio quality?
The current presumption is that high-resolution and lossless streaming will be packaged into an upcoming, more expensive “Supremium” tier that will include a slew of other exclusive perks; we’ve even seen Spotify’s branding for the plan. Many people constantly hammer on the point that it’s hard for the average listener to tell any difference between lossless audio and the compressed music that Spotify is already providing. It’s believed that Spotify was caught totally flat-footed when Apple and Amazon both started giving customers higher-fidelity audio at no extra cost, and that its own deals with labels didn’t make it financially viable for the leading streaming music service to do the same.
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