Spotify may still drop the needle on long-delayed HiFi plan

It is been so extensive because Spotify announced a lossless HiFi tier that a lot of assumed the streaming giant experienced just scuttled the attribute, but now there are hints that HiFi could even now launch, and perhaps relatively soon.

In accordance to a put up on Reddit, a longtime Spotify person who experienced not too long ago ditched the company for Apple Tunes claims they bought a survey teasing a new plan–“Spotify Platinum”–that boasts HiFi, amid other options.

As initial claimed by 9to5Mac, the survey states Spotify Platinum contains “everything” in the $9.99-a-thirty day period personal approach, as nicely as:

HiFi
Studio Sound
Headphone Tuner
Audio Insights
Library Professional
Playlist Pro
Constrained ad-Spotify podcasts

As you might guess from the “Platinum” moniker, the (purported) new system wouldn’t come low-priced: believe $19.99 a month, or double the price of Spotify’s person Top quality prepare.

In accordance to the Redditor, the survey questioned irrespective of whether they would switch again to Spotify ‘in the up coming 30 days” for Platinum or another Spotify approach, suggesting that the new tier could launch in the close to potential.

Spotify 1st introduced Spotify HiFi way back again in February 2021, contacting it a way for Spotify Quality end users to “upgrade their audio quality” to a “CD-top quality, lossless audio format.” Spotify promised that HiFi would get there ahead of the conclude of 2021.

But Spotify was crushed to the punch by Apple, which rolled out lossless and hi-res songs streaming additionally spatial audio in May 2021, for no added demand more than its standard Apple Songs plans.

On the exact same day that Apple manufactured its announcement, Amazon Songs said it would drop the high quality demand for its personal lossless, hello-res, and spatial audio choices.

Spotify has been generally silent about its Spotify HiFi strategies subsequent its original announcement, even though in a January 2022 statement, it claimed “we never have timing details to share yet” about a start date.

It’s not very clear what several of the possible capabilities outlined in the leaked survey would do. “Studio Sound” could be a reference to hi-res (24-little bit) audio, compared to the CD-high-quality (16-little bit) audio that Spotify tapped for HiFi. Or it could mean spatial audio, a element that Spotify has however to point out as significantly as Spotify HiFi is involved.

We have achieved out to Spotify for comment.