Take Spotify and YouTube Music, with the free versions being supported by ads, but also typically the sound quality being a little lower than what you get if you pay. The moment you pay for music services, you typically get a better quality than the free offerings they have. Hopefully, the wait won’t be much longer now.The world’s biggest music service may be popular, but it doesn’t exactly cater to the best sound quality. Nonetheless, whatever be the case, the company is running out of time to introduce a HiFi streaming tier. But Apple Music offering the feature for free means Spotify will suddenly become a more expensive service since they both currently cost the same. Its initial plan was to charge extra for CD-quality music, on top of the existing Premium subscription. Perhaps this made Spotify delay its HiFi rollout and rethink the plan.

It’s been more than four years since the initial test run and the wait goes on. Spotify tested lossless music among a small group of users in the US back in 2017. It is essentially audio in its purest form as the sound comes from uncompressed music files. HiFi streaming means lossless, CD-quality music.

Spotify is running out of time to introduce HiFi streaming # We have no ETA (estimated time of arrival) yet and the moderator’s statement doesn’t suggest the feature is anywhere close to a release. Now, when we were looking forward to a piece of good news from the company, its latest update makes things muddier than before. But 2021 has already come to an end and Spotify HiFi is nowhere to be seen.

The music streaming biggie also added that it would have more details to share soon. The company back then said that the rollout will begin in select markets “later this year”. Spotify first announced its plans to introduce a HiFi streaming tier back in February 2021. “We will of course update you here when we can.” But we don’t have timing details to share yet,” the moderator said.

We feel the same, and we’re excited to deliver a Spotify HiFi experience to Premium users in the future. “We know that HiFi quality audio is important to you.

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