After years of promising to bring higher-quality audio to its platform, Spotify is finally starting to make progress on completing that promise. Spicetify is a third-party customization tool for Spotify. Its developers have revealed the mention of “lossless” audio functionality within Spotify’s latest software update. It’s showing new user interface elements that suggest the current development of lossless audio. We are told the lossless feature will support audio quality up to 24-bit/44.1KHz (FLAC + Widevine) that can be played across connected devices without wiring. Apple Music and Amazon Music have already launched their higher-quality audio options in 2021 at no additional cost to their streamers. However, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek confirmed that Spotify will roll out a new, pricier “Super-Premium” tier as part of its efforts to differentiate its paid subscription plans. He continued: “The plan here is to offer a much better version of Spotify. Something like $5 above the current Premium tier… sort of a deluxe version of Spotify that has all of the benefits that the normal Spotify version has, but a lot more control, a lot higher quality across the board, and some other things that I’m not ready to talk about just yet”. This screenshot from Spicetify’s X shows “lossless” appearing as a streaming quality option in Spotify’s settings menu. [H/T] Music Business WorldwideLeaks Reveal Spotify Will Roll Out Lossless Audio Feature Soon
