Nearly a year after it was announced, where is Spotify HiFi?

According to Spotify itself, high-quality music streaming is time and again the most requested feature users want to see – yet in 2022 we’re still stuck with the same standard definition playback we’ve had for years. It wasn’t meant to be this way though – almost a year ago in February 2021, the company unveiled Spotify HiFi, a new benefit for Premium subscribers to upgrade their sound to a lossless format that sounds as good as a CD.  The announcement was hyped up by Billie Eilish and FINNEAS who were brought on to explain why audiophiles should opt for high-quality audio – and it came with a promise that select markets would be able to try the feature “later this year.

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