Spotify HiFi might lastly be coming, but it surely’ll value you
We know you’ve been burned earlier than, however in accordance a promising report from Bloomberg, Spotify is poised to announce a brand new premium add-on later this yr that may lastly ship its much-anticipated HiFi choice, in addition to some new playlist creation instruments.
Although Bloomberg’s report, which cites a “source familiar with the plan,” is gentle on particular decision particulars, it says that the brand new high-fidelity audio choice can be offered as an add-on for present buyer,s who might be charged a minimum of an extra $5 monthly relying on their base plan.
The add-on is not going to solely ship higher high quality audio — which has been a sore spot for some Spotify customers contemplating that lots of its streaming service rivals resembling Apple Music, Tidal, Qobuz, and Amazon Music have been delivering hi-res streams for years — however will even embody some new playlist creation and library administration instruments.
In April, Spotify introduced that it was beta testing a brand new AI Playlist creation device with its U.Ok. and Australian customers that enables them to make use of ChatGPT-style textual content prompts to create playlists. It’s anybody’s guess as as to whether that is the brand new playlist device that Bloomberg’s unnamed supply is referring to.
Spotify has been dangling its HiFi carrot on the market since first announcing it in 2021, and the rumors have come on the common ever since (this exact same story broke round this time final yr, too). One of the more moderen hints got here in April of this yr when a Reddit user noticed some code within the Spotify app that steered that the HiFi tier might ship lossless audio with as much as 24-bit/44.1kHz FLAC recordsdata.
This new HiFi plan data comes on the heels of Spotify’s second price increase in less than a year, with the service’s hottest Premium particular person plan going from $11 to $12 monthly subsequent month. Spotify’s Duo plan additionally jumps to $17 monthly and the Family plan to $20 monthly,whereas the Student stays the identical at $6 a month. It’s unclear which plans the brand new HiFi add-on can be eligible for.
