Spotify HiFi arriving later this year with lossless, CD-quality audio
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- RandomPiash
- anG
- 23 Feb 2021
PetrSP7, 23 Feb 2021CD-quality, technology from 1982, is "lossless"??... moreUmm..yes. it's analogue and it's the cream of the crop of the audio enthusiasts
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- Anonymous
- bJb
- 23 Feb 2021
If CD quality is the benchmark, why aren’t we going back?
- PetrSP7
- mgQ
- 23 Feb 2021
PetrSP7, 23 Feb 2021CD-quality, technology from 1982, is "lossless"??... morefrom 1979...
- PetrSP7
- mgQ
- 23 Feb 2021
MasEnha, 23 Feb 2021There are two possibilities; Either you don't know wha... moreYes, but with good attached DAC AMP you are (with Tidal MQA) almost on the same - or higher - "vinyl" level as your dad is... ;-)
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- Anonymous
- GRN
- 23 Feb 2021
MasEnha, 23 Feb 2021There are two possibilities; Either you don't know wha... moreI do like to imagine that I know what I am talking about ;).
Anyhow, my point was that if Spotify could get, say, SACD quality, it would have been able to serve the needs of the audiophile crowd, who currently have to hunt for SACD or Vinyl pressings. For the general.public listening on phones, good bitrate MP3 / AAC is adequate anyway.
If they are labeling a service 'hi-fi', it is fair to suggest that they should have gone for gold, instead of just CD quality.
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- Yuri84
- 0T@
- 23 Feb 2021
"select markets"
I can't find info about select markets, but something tells me it will be the usual "USA + Canada" mix. Which I am not a part of, sadly. Oh well, I'm not paying Spotify anyways.
- Fearghast
- 0Cs
- 23 Feb 2021
I do not really use Spotify even through I have it shared via family account with my bro, but we certainly need more high-res options on the market.
So go Spotify, go!
- YUKI93
- IVW
- 23 Feb 2021
Definitely would love to try this on my LG V50 with its Quad DAC since I have been a long time Spotify user since 2015. Yet more reason for me not to go wireless again.
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- Samath N8 808 owner
- DkX
- 23 Feb 2021
I think there should be a service that at least offers downloadable, editable files...
Earlier, Flipkart used to have such a service, it was just mp3 though, but God knows why they just shut down.
Streaming is ok, but offline music is cool.
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- royo1e
- vG7
- 23 Feb 2021
Sounds awesome, I wish Spotify would launch Spotify HiFi in India. It'll be a superhit
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- Rkm
- ypc
- 23 Feb 2021
It probably wouldn't go above 24bit 48khz because most androids resample it to that. Higher bitrate would be nice though.
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- MasEnha
- y$e
- 23 Feb 2021
Oops, I missed that it will be in 16bit/44.1KHz only.
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- MasEnha
- y$e
- 23 Feb 2021
Anonymous, 23 Feb 2021Ideally, they should have picked a source with a higher sam... moreThere are two possibilities; Either you don't know what you're talking about or you have an expectation that's too high. CD quality streaming in lossless is enough at least for most audio enthusiast. Let alone the vinyl users as they have their own world (including my dad). Sadly, most bluetooth earphone users will not really feel the difference.
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- Anonymous
- GRN
- 23 Feb 2021
Ideally, they should have picked a source with a higher sampling rate, instead of CD quality. But good development, I guess.
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- Dometalican
- rb2
- 23 Feb 2021
It's about time. Took them long enough.
If they know better, it better be 24-bit minimum.
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- Anon
- fXR
- 23 Feb 2021
Too bad Bluetooth compresses audio, where as a headphone jack does not. Better quality through the built-in DAC on a LG with a headphone jack than Bluetooth.
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- s-pen pusher
- t7x
- 23 Feb 2021
about time. i switched to deezer hifi 10 months ago because it was the only music streaming service that offers hi-fi here in the philippines.