Lossless audio on Spotify Premium has finally — FINALLY! — arrived. Spotify describes its new lossless streaming option as “one of the most anticipated features on Spotify,” and that is definitely an understatement.
Behind the scenes, Spotify has been toying with offering a lossless option for at least eight years, but the company explicitly told its users that lossless streaming was “coming soon” way back in 2021. It was no doubt a response to a similar move by Apple Music, which went lossless in the same year. Apple Music now serves up all of its content in at least CD quality, all the way up to 24-bit/192kHz high-resolution. The difference is that when
Apple Music announced the upgrade from lossy compression (think MP3) to lossless/hi-res, the change actually happened in 2021 — virtually immediately, as a matter of fact. Spotify’s promise to go lossless was followed by years of silence and not much else, other than the occasional comment that it was still in the works. Now, after more than four years, Spotify is finally making good on its word.
There are some caveats that this editorial discusses Spotify users should be aware of.
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