Our rates for providing a distribution service are currently the best in the market and our ever expanding catalogue gives us increasing muscle with which to negotiate deals from which everyone, artists, clients and distribution partners included will all benefit. It is essentially audio in its purest form as the sound comes from uncompressed music files. Meanwhile competitors Apple Music, Amazon Music and TIDAL have offered improved audio at no additional cost. Spotify is running out of time to introduce HiFi streaming HiFi streaming means lossless, CD-quality music. Onsite, artists, labels and creators can upload content to the RouteNote catalogue and enter into a non-exclusive agreement permitting us to distribute their music to a worldwide audience. Spotify is set to miss its own deadline to add HiFi CD quality audio. Spotify announced a new HiFi (lossless) tier would be coming at the end of 2021, but there has been no further word about when or if it would actually appear.
RouteNote has since grown into a full digital media management service providing artists, labels and creators instant access to a large proportion of the online market. RouteNote is partnered with some of the biggest retailers on the web to give artists massive and immediate availability for their products. Officially launched in 2007, RouteNote began as a digital music distribution platform for independent artists and labels to get their music online,ĭesigned and built to take advantage of the shift towards independent and self-publication through online and mobile music or video outlets. This new video shows that the feature is likely nearly ready to start rolling out. Spotify had initially said that Spotify HiFi would be an additional cost for Spotify Premium subscribers, but it could be that it was forced to change its plans once Apple added the feature for free. While this is quite the step up from 320 kbps, most hi-fi streaming services surpass this quality, offering up to 24 bit at 192 kHz on Apple Music, Amazon Music HD, TIDAL HiFi, Qobuz Studio Premier and MOOV.Īll we know about the launch date is from the initial announcement, which said “Spotify HiFi will begin rolling out in select markets later this year”. In the announcement, Spotify said “music in CD-quality, lossless audio format”.
Currently, Spotify Premium streams at up to 320 kbps MP3.
The second question we are waiting to be answered is, what will be the maximum audio quality available with Spotify HiFi. If Spotify charge extra for HiFi, they will likely only attract a small number of enthusiasts who are die hard Spotify fans. The end of the video shows a Get access to HiFi button.
But months have passed by and there is no update from the company concerning Spotify HiFi. Since the announcement, Apple Music and Amazon Music HD have launched their own hi-fi services at zero extra cost over regular $9.99 per month subscriptions. Spotify HiFi will enable subscribers to listen to their favorite songs in CD quality and lossless format and enhance the overall user experience. Unfortunately the video still does not answer one of the biggest questions we have for Spotify HiFi. On the Spotify Connect page, device that support HiFi will have a green tag beside them. This will likely tell you whether your internet connection or audio equipment needs upgrading to support HiFi playback.
If tracks can’t be played in high fidelity, Spotify will let you know where the weak link in your setup is. Garjen said: Spotify state on their website that they use AAC the highest quality being Very high: Equivalent to approximately 320kbit/s, Compare that to tidal Lossless quality audio (1411kbps or 16bit / 44.1kHz) So even if Spotify currently do use flac (not advertised) I doubt the encoding would be running anywhere near 1411kps. If the video is to be believed and features don’t change before the launch, hi-fi enabled tracks will show a green HiFi tag on the Now Playing screen. The video suggests Spotify HiFi could be just around the corner.
While, we still don’t have definitive answers to these questions, we do have a sneak peak at what looks to be the onboarding process thanks to a Reddit user who modified the Android app.
Since the announcement, details have been sparse and we’re still waiting to see when the feature will drop, how much the upgrade costs and the maximum streaming quality. Spotify HiFi, the CD-quality lossless audio quality upgrade coming to the streaming service, was announced back in February this year. Image Credit: Reddit user – Nickx000x A new video that supposedly shows the onboarding process of Spotify HiFi on the mobile app, suggests that a launch is imminent.