Spotify to launch 'Hi-Fi' CD Quality Tier.

[DanielT]

just buy another year for 99€. Every year it's less likely you can hear a difference to lossless anyway. While thinking of it.. we should also pay less every year for the same reason? Special offers for seniors please.

The money and what you hear or not is one thing but now it's about the principle itself.

 

[Zensō]

How sad they are facing this humiliation.
As a long term sub I feel bad for them.

I wouldn’t feel bad for Spotify. Among the major services they pay the least to artists.

This Is What Music Streaming Services Pay Artists

All the numbers: Spotify; TikTok; YouTube; Apple Music and more

medium.com

 

[DanielT]

How sad they are facing this humiliation.
As a long term sub I feel bad for them.

Ha ha, now I got it. You seem to be a sensible tough guy. You have to joke with us now.

 

[Willem]

I don't particulary care for lossless. I would rather that they invested an effort into securing high dynamic range masters instead of dynamically amputated remastered ones. That would make for a real sonic improvement.

 

[DanielT]

I don't particulary care for lossless. I would rather that they invested an effort into securing high dynamic range masters instead of dynamically amputated remastered ones. That would make for a real sonic improvement.

 

[Jimbob54]

I don't particulary care for lossless. I would rather that they invested an effort into securing high dynamic range masters instead of dynamically amputated remastered ones. That would make for a real sonic improvement.

One has to assume Spotify (and probably the rest of them TBH) consider the "quality" of their product to be more about the customer interface/ experience on the app and less about the actual content they serve. Put another way, do any of them actually remove files because of quality issues they scan for ? Or does this rely on customer reporting to do the QC for them?

Put yet another way, I cant see any streaming service going out of their way to obtain HDR Masters over whatever version came from the label/ distributor. Unless they thought there was a market for such. Which sounds a bit like part of the offer of a certain quasi lossless/ HD format whose name we shall not mention. And even they dont seem bothered about dynamic range.

 

[maverickronin]

If you can’t deliver, don’t announce!

Well they could have...

Before Apple and then Amazon went all in on making their music services into loss leaders...

 

[voodooless]

Well they could have...

Before Apple and then Amazon went all in on making their music services into loss leaders...

Yeah, nobody could have foreseen that

Beaten by two companies that see this as just another side hustle…

 

[MaxBuck]

Am I the only one hilarified by using Ozzy Osbourne to make a point regarding high dynamic range?

 

[DanielT]

Am I the only one hilarified by using Ozzy Osbourne to make a point regarding high dynamic range?

It's not the whole world in terms of what the streaming providers offer per se, but you can always dream a little.

Merry Christmas.

 

[ThatM1key]

I don't particulary care for lossless. I would rather that they invested an effort into securing high dynamic range masters instead of dynamically amputated remastered ones. That would make for a real sonic improvement.

I like lossless but If I had a choice, I would take a OGG Vorbis ~300 to 500kbps or even MP3 320kbps copy of a MFSL CD than take a "remastered" FLAC copy.

I know people that listen to terrible those new "remastered" FLAC albums but once they come across Johnny Cash's song "Hurt", they'll rethink what there listening to.

 

[Sal1950]

I don't particulary care for lossless. I would rather that they invested an effort into securing high dynamic range masters instead of dynamically amputated remastered ones. That would make for a real sonic improvement.

That's just silly since it's not even remotely within their power.

I do believe it's something that would make a "real sonic improvement" that threw a monkey wrench into the gears, multich. Most all the competition has added multich, Atmos, and all the rest along with their lossless offerings, something they didn't see coming and weren't prepared for..
I does totally surprise me they haven't make a single comment on it all year now.

 

[Zensō]

Spotify HiFi might be happening soon.

Where is Spotify HiFi?

Spotify originally said it would arrive by the end of 2021.

www.theverge.com

 

[ThatM1key]

 

[SKBubba]

Golem.de: IT-News für Profis

In a current statement on request from Golem.de, Spotify stated: "Both artists and fans have told us that HiFi quality is important to them. We agree and look forward to offering Spotify HiFi to premium users in the future - To offer an experience, but we cannot give any further details at the moment. " It is therefore unclear when Spotify Hifi will start.

 

[holbob]

Sounds like it's either not happening or it's a long way away.

 

[Taddpole]

Sounds like it's either not happening or it's a long way away.

Not really even if they were about to launch it they wouldn't exactly say that in answer to simple question.

 

[danadam]

...

Oh my! How can I check if my wired speakers are capable of playing lossless audio?

 

[danadam]

A large company like Spotify that has sales and a profit of. ..?

... negative X
I thought it was a common knowledge now, that they are not profitable. Although a quick google search shows, that this year, surprisingly, they were.

 

[danadam]

The money and what you hear or not is one thing but now it's about the principle itself.

Well, as principles go, I consider streaming lossless a wasted bandwidth, so I guess, in a way, I support them in not providing it