We're working with some of the world's biggest speaker manufacturers to make Spotify HiFi accessible to as many fans as possible through Spotify Connect. We're also assuming that the same can be said via the Spotify mobile app and desktop web player.

The good news is that if you already own components or speakers that feature Spotify Connect, and you subscribe to Spotify HiFi, you will be able to access those higher-quality streams without having to do anything extra. What hasn't yet been made clear is which those territories are, when they will get the CD-quality streams, or how much it will actually cost. The green streaming giant even got Billie Eilish in to act on Spotify's behalf during the company's Stream On livestream event.ĭuring the announcement, it was made clear that this will be rolled out to limited territories in the first instance, as is usually the way. The Spotify HiFi service will start later this year and be available as an upgrade to Premium subscribers in select markets, which we are taking as an added cost option.Īlthough it has taken much longer for Spotify to get on the CD-quality+ train with the likes of Deezer and Amazon HD joining the established hi-res streamers of Qobuz (rumoured to be launching in Australia soon) and Tidal ahead of it, we are told that “high-quality music streaming has consistently been one of the users' most-requested features”.

Instead, the service has announced it will offer “lossless CD-quality streams” in comparison to its current offering topping out at 320kbps, whereas Tidal can best 96 kHz / 24-bit audio. Initially, we thought that the Swedish streaming service would come out guns blazing with a quality challenger to Tidal and Qobuz.

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