The world of sound and music streaming is becoming more and more professional with a simple objective: to achieve the best listening quality on our devices. To do this, it is necessary to have technologies to exploit this high fidelity audio both in the speakers and in the services that provide the sound itself. Spotify announced last February its high fidelity program (HiFi) which would see the light of day at the end of 2021. However, that has not happened and users are on the warpath. In reality, Spotify has announced that the release has been postponed indefinitely.
High fidelity is coming to streaming services
the high fidelity sound (HiFi) it is sound that is reproduced with maximum fidelity as the artist composed and produced it. In this way, we managed to increase the sound quality. Unlike what happens with video, high quality audio does not have generalized standards, but companies and businesses may be able to create their own codecs.
Many services already offer lossless music using this high-fidelity sound. In the case of Apple Music, Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) technology is used, a proprietary lossless audio compression system. In this case, all music is encoded in resolutions ranging from 16-bit/44.1kHz (CD quality) to 24-bit/192kHz. All that included for free in the Apple Music subscription.
Spotify Hi-Fi Sound: postponed and without release date
Another much bigger streaming music service is Spotify. In February last year, 2021, he announced Spotify Hi-Fi, a project that led the its high fidelity to subscribers. In this way, he faced large companies that had in mind to launch a similar system. The fight was to deliver the best audio quality on every compatible device.
Spotify’s roadmap was to launch the To add end of 2021. And in fact, it’s an add-on because they wanted to make it an “additional” service apart from the Premium subscription. In other words, to be able to opt for high fidelity sound, you had to have Premium and buy the additional Spotify HiFi service.
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Almost a year later, service has not arrived and does not appear to be arriving in the coming months. In fact, in the company’s support forums, many users are tired and constantly ask questions about this. In recent days they have already announced from Spotify that his release has been postponed indefinitely and there is no official release date.
We know HiFi audio quality is important to you. We feel the same and are excited to bring Spotify HiFi experience to Premium users in the future. But we still don’t have any date details to share.
We will of course update it as soon as we can.
This means a very significant delay for Spotify because many of its competitors like Apple Music or Amazon Music They already have high fidelity sound among their advantages. In addition, the technology is integrated free of charge into the existing subscription to the platform. That is to say, Apple Music users do not pay more to access the HiFi technology offered to them. We will finally see how it all ends and if Spotify decides to launch its HiFi service to be able to listen to high quality music on compatible devices through Spotify Connect.
