Launched alongside a video that sees Billie Eilish and Finneas chat about their experiences with hi-fi audio, Spotify HiFi will provide listeners with CD-quality, lossless audio streams when it launches in select territories later this year. Never miss an update – sign up to our newsletter for all the latest news, reviews, features and giveaways. Billie Eilish and Finneas announced the new service as part of Spotify’s Stream On live-stream event today.The product will see Spotify match other Hi-Fi streaming options offered by TIDAL, Amazon Music and Deezer.Spotify HiFi will be launched later this year and made available to Spotify Premium subscribers in select territories.Spotify has announced that a new subscription-based Hi-Fi streaming service will be offered to their customers this year, giving listeners access to lossless audio via the platform. “Anytime anyone really takes time to sit down with our music and listen to it in a really high quality way it’s very exciting because I know they are hearing everything that we intended them to.”įINNEAS added: “Anytime anyone really takes time to sit down with our music and listen to it in a really high quality way it’s very exciting because I know they are hearing everything that we intended them to.Words by Will Brewster The streaming service announced the changes in a video with Billie Eilish and Finneas today. “It’s really important just because we make music that want to be heard in the way that it was made.”
“High quality audio means more info, there are things you will not hear if you don’t have a good sound system.”īillie Eilish, said: “High quality audio means more info, there are things you will not hear if you don’t have a good sound system.
Meanwhile, Deezer offers a HiFi tier at a standard price of $14.99 per month, which, like TIDAL’s equivalent, streams music at 44.1 kHz / 16-bit via FLAC files. One of the best known existing hi-def music streaming offering comes from TIDAL, whose TIDAL Hi-FI subscription tier costs $19.99 per month and offers CD-quality lossless streams at 44.1 kHz / 16 bit.
Existing Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers can upgrade for an additional $5 / £5 a month. It costs existing Amazon Prime members $12.99 (US) / £12.99 (UK) a month and non-Prime members $14.99 / $14.99 a month. The new HiFi tier will bring Spotify in line with rivals like TIDAL, Deezer and Amazon Music.Īmazon Music launched Amazon Music HD in the US, UK, Germany and Japan in September 2019.
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