Spotify will charge extra for functionality offered by other platforms as part of their subscription plans!
In 2021, Apple Music included lossless audio streaming, available to all customers with a subscription to the platform. Since then, this it has become a quality sought after by users of other platforms, including Spotify. Although the wait is coming to an end.
According to information shared by Bloomberg, Spotify is preparing a new premium subscription tier that will include “HiFi” lossless audio streaming, so users will have to pay more to get it. Although with this, the service is at a disadvantage compared to Apple Music or Amazon, which offer this feature in the available plans.
He lossless audio refers to lossless compression so that we can maintain high quality audio from every bit that was originally in the file, it can be restored by applying decoding. When this option is not available, the digital format of the audio files that we download or listen to on different music streaming platforms get compressed and lose quality compared to the original recorded files. Something that is done on purpose so that the songs take up much less space.
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Although for now the price of new plan whose codename includes the adjective ‘Supremium’, it will be higher than the value of 9.99 dollars currently paid for Spotify Premium and which, at the moment, is cheaper than the Apple Music subscription. At the end of last year, Apple raised its prices to $10.99 per month, citing “higher licensing costs”.
Before Rise of other platformsSpotify executives have floated the idea that its price could rise to match, although nothing has been confirmed.
While Spotify has just caught up with the launch of lossless audio, Apple Music has announced a series of exciting updates that we can enjoy with the official release of iOS 17 in fall 2023, and some have already been able to test on the first beta version for developers, currently available.
Although lossy audioless streaming is expected to arrive this year, it is assumed that this will happen first in other countries, before in the United Stateswhen generally available, before or at the same time as the global expansion
