Note that Spotify also announced its arrival in 80 new countries which will greatly increase the number of subscribers to the streaming platform which currently has 345 million users including 155 million paid subscriptions.

More details should appear in the coming months. We can therefore expect a price placement comparable to what Deezer and Qobuz offer, i.e. The current Spotify offer consists of the Individual subscription at €9.99 per month, Duo at €12.99 per month, Family at €14.99 per month and Student at €4.99 per month. Now, when we were looking forward to a piece of good news from the company, its latest update makes things muddier than before. The initial launch of Spotify HiFi will be reserved for “a few countries” at first, it remains to be seen which countries will be able to access this new service or if it will be necessary to wait as was the case with Amazon HD. But 2021 has already come to an end and Spotify HiFi is nowhere to be seen. The streaming service has therefore indicated that its new offer will provide CD quality, regardless of the device used for playback, without specifying the price of this new subscription or the countries in which it will be available. Spotify has been tight-lipped about any potential launch, bar a Status Update that promised the platform would “deliver a Spotify HiFi experience to Premium users in the future.Spotify is entering the lossless streaming market a bit later than its competitors Qobuz, Tidal or even Deezer, but offers the advantage of being compatible with a wide array of WiFi / Bluetooth amplifiers, of network drives and connected speakers. The official announcement of Spotify HiFi was February 2021. Spotify would seem miserly charging double the current price tag unless they offered some seriously sweet perks. Higher quality audio has become industry standard. Just after Spotify’s initial announcement early last year, Apple Music upset the, er, apple cart by offering HiFi for no extra cost, with Amazon Music quickly following suit. The problem is, Spotify’s competitors aren’t charging any extra for lossless audio. Spotify HiFi could finally be nearing launch, but perhaps not as we expected. Would anyone pay $20 for Spotify with HiFi? The survey shared with me details of Spotify’s upcoming subscription tiers available and asked if I would switch back “in the next 30 days” for one of these features.” 9to5Mac quotes a user named Drew as saying: “I received a survey from Spotify today after cancelling Spotify Premium for Apple Music after 10 years with Spotify.

Spotify hifi news