This time it’s really happening. Maybe: Spotify Pro

[Revolutions]

Spotify Music Pro to rival Apple's HiFi lossless audio, launching this 2025

Spotify will introduce HiFi lossless audio to its consumers this year.

www.gizguide.com

 

[RTHerringbone]

I read about this earlier. It'll be interesting to see how it pans out because the extra cost is relatively cheeky if you compare to TIDAL, but I currently have Spotify (Family Plan) and TIDAL (me), so losing one or the other will benefit me.

I am rather fond of TIDAL though, it must be said. I hope this isn't curtains for them.

 

[Revolutions]

I realise I didn’t comment on the link, naughty. But it feels like there’s little to say that I haven’t said so many times over the last few years (probably on threads here). Needless to say, I’ll still sign up immediately if it happens, and that means goodbye Tidal. Been using Tidal daily for 6 months now & still prefer Spotify UI absolutely.

 

[RTHerringbone]

How does the acquisition of better quality tracks actually work? Do Spotify have to engineer them themselves, or is there a mystical land of file remastering that they'll have to buy them from (hence the price increase)?

It does seem strange that they've taken so long to get to the point where this might actually happen, so maybe it's the first route if they're just assuming that they won't attract a material number of new subscribers and so need to fund this from the existing user base?

 

[abacus]

Tidal are not the only one with high res (Apple, Qobuz, Amazon) and they are still going strong, so I doubt one more will make much difference, particularly as it looks like Spotify HD will be significantly more expensive than the competition.

Bill

 

[londonguy]

It was "later this year" about 5 years ago. They have missed the boat now to charge extra. There is no reason to do so. Ill stick with Tidal.

 

[GroeneLeeuw]

I´ll give it a try if the price is right.
Been using Tidal for a long time now and I´m pretty satisfied.
Do miss Sportify´s recommendations, I discovered a lot of music thanks to it. Tidal does it as well but not as good.
Used Qobuz and the sound quality was really good, everything else not so much hence the choice for Tidal.

 

[Rodolfo]

... may merely be one more, the latest, spotify-maybe-finally.

Whenever, they will be the last, now that even Apple began offering some level of "hi-res" -last year, was it?

Amazon used to charge extra for their hi-res tier, but when they dropped that several years ago, I dropped spotify and moved to Amazon Unlimited. It coincided with spotify's heavy investment/move to podcasts which still do not interest me at all.

Actually, I guess the giant of them all, youtube, would be the last, no? Speaking of no interest for me since I still prefer to listen to recorded music.

 

[jarablue]

I just use youtube music and set it to high quality. At 50 my ears aint' what they used to be.

 

[manicm]

I just use youtube music and set it to high quality. At 50 my ears aint' what they used to be.

It's difficult to use YouTube Music on a hi-fi though without Chromecast. And Bluetooth kept dropping out, I don't know if that was the fault of my component though.

 

[BenWatts]

Will they finally compensate the authors at their fair value or continue to exploit them?

 

[ahmad34]

I read about this earlier. It'll be interesting to see how it pans out because the extra cost is relatively cheeky if you compare to TIDAL, but I currently have Spotify (Family Plan) and TIDAL (me), so losing one or the other will benefit me.

I am rather fond of TIDAL though, it must be said. I hope this isn't curtains for them.

I'm using Tidal — the HiFi price is high, but I can't even think about leaving it. It's just that good. It's July 2025, and Spotify HiFi still hasn't come.