Spotify has announced that it is rolling the Spotify Hifi defective audio feature on the platform. This feature is currently available in Australia, Austria, Chetchia, Denmark, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, Sweden, America and UK, and for more than 50 countries for more than 50 countries through October, and gradually for Spotified Premium customers, and gradually October.
Spotify first announced its plans to launch Spotify Hifi in 2021. It was probably going to be a high -priced tier, as it was a standard among competitors like Tidal, Amazon and Qobuz at that time. Then, came to Apple and announced that it would offer a high-resolution blameless and spatial audio without any extra charge. It has made Spotify to blame its plans, without really explaining indefinitely, without really.
Well, it changes today. Spotify Hifi is finally watching daylight and, above it, is also being introduced at the same price as current premium levels. The users will see an additional quality option in their media quality settings, which are called defectively which will enable this feature.
Spotify 24-bit/44.1 KHz is offering its defective files up to Flac, which is a big step from 320kbps Equivalent OGG Vorbis files which were earlier the highest quality available. However, compared to the competition, the number of Spotify, introduces 24-bit/192 KHz files compared to companies like Apple and Tidal. In addition, Spotify is also not offering spatial audio content at this time unlike its rivals. If you do not know what it means, then you can see our lecturer article here.
With this announcement, there is a feeling of ‘very little, too late’, and it is possible that the company is saving high-resolution and spatial audio content for future high-value announcement. Nevertheless, simply the addition of the blameless quality should be the cause of a celebration for anyone with audio gear that can appreciate the difference and hold on to switch to other services.
Time should not be very surprised for this announcement. Only a few months ago we saw the features of the feature to look deep buried within the Spotiff Desktop app. In addition, Apple recently announced a tool for users of other music streaming services, which easily to migrate their library in Apple Music.
It is unfortunate that the company is not rolling out this feature immediately for every premium user, many countries have waited for the feature to show for at least a month for a long time. Nevertheless, which seemed like eternity to wait, one month should not be too bad.
