Ready to make the leap to lossless? Here's everything we know about Spotify HiFi. The silver lining? We have good reason to believe that Spotify HiFi songs will be available to save and download to your devices for offline listening, which means you should be able to take your new lossless music library with you anywhere. Spotify hasn’t said exactly how much the service will cost just yet, it sounds like it’s going to be more than the basic Spotify Premium price of $9.99 / £9.99 / AU$11.99 per month and there’s no guarantee that every song in the entire Spotify catalog will have a HiFi version available. Reading between the lines, Spotify HiFi, available in late 2021, will offer a comparable catalog of 70+ million songs for lossless audio listening.Unfortunately, even when Spotify HiFi does release it will only be available in “select markets” to start. It mostly simplifies things around a Studio Premier subscription that offers 70+ million lossless songs with FLAC 24 bit up to 192 kHz.

Qobuz is a new entrant to the US, but has been a long time pioneer in high quality streaming. “3D audio” is the immersive one and includes Dolby Atmos and 360 Reality Audio formats. “Ultra HD” or UHD, is even better, streaming up to 24 bit/48 kHZ (or 96 kHz to 192 kHz). “HD” is the lossless level that includes more than 70 million songs with a bit depth of 16-bits and a sample rate of 44.1 kHz and above. A Tidal hi-fi subscription provides access to stream 70+ million lossless tracks, along with Master tracks (high-resolution audio) and immersive audio ( Dolby Atmos or 360 Reality Audio).Īmazon Music chooses to use the same terminology as video, ideally to help consumers differentiate between higher and lower quality.

Tidal is one of the most well known lossless streamers because it used high audio quality to differentiate itself from the beginning.

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