Spotify adds lossless streaming after 8 years of teasing

https://www.theverge.com/spotify/775189/spotify-lossless-streaming-flac-audio

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  1. It’s been a long time coming but Spotify is finally getting lossless audio. Rumors have been circulating about a high-fidelity offering since as early as 2017. In 2021, Spotify claimed it was “coming later this year.” And by May of 2024 it was “almost ready.” So, when rumors started picking up again in June of this year, they were met with skepticism, especially amid announcements over the launch of features nobody was asking for, like direct messaging.

    Well, it’s here. For real. And there’s some good news — Lossless won’t be confined to a new higher-priced tier. There’s no new Spotify HiFi membership or Music Pro subscription. Instead lossless audio will be rolling out to all Premium subscribers in 50 markets (starting with Australia, Austria, Czechia, Denmark, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, the US, and the UK) over the next two months.

    Read more: [https://www.theverge.com/spotify/775189/spotify-lossless-streaming-flac-audio](https://www.theverge.com/spotify/775189/spotify-lossless-streaming-flac-audio)

  3. airpods pro 3 should have on device processor so it could stream lossless audio.

  4. Just remember that streaming FLACs is going to devour your mobile data if you use it for this

  5. People who can tell the difference aren’t using Spotify

  7. How funny, I just quit Spotify and downloaded tidal for this exact reason. I will not be going back to Spotify 👎👎

  11. As someone who has AirPod pros and has listened to both Apple and Spotify, Apple is clearly superior but Spotify is where I’ve accumulated my library, should the quality be about the same once this rolls out?

  12. Couldn’t care less. I left Spotify for good many years ago and have zero desire to return

  13. And yet I still need to go through four menu layers to change the equalizer

  15. Hmmm….are they preparing a new tier of payment? Oh crap. 🙁

  16. It’s not clear but does this also mean it’s going to get an Exclusive Mode like TIDAL, etc where the app takes control of the output device, and adjusts the bitrate of the source device (e.g. a Mac) so there’s no up or downsampling?

  20. Is it available already? Gonna drop AM as soon as available

  21. I don’t care. What about stop pausing all the time? How about staying connecting to MY Bluetooth and not trying to jump to other people’s? WHAT ABOUT A WORKING FUCKING SHUFFLE BUTTON? Omg, this company is so stupid. 

  22. Switched to Apple Music years ago because of this.

    Fuck off Shitify

  23. Fuck you Ek. Qobuz sounds epic. My only regret is not dumping these clowns earlier

  26. Okay now do actual fucking shuffle instead of the same 100 songs every day.

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