>In an effort to attract audiophiles away from Tidal, Spotify is reportedly gearing up to launch a new lossless audio tier. According to The Verge, the new feature, called 'Spotify Hi-Fi', will offer all the same features one would get with a Premium subscription, along with “lossless CD quality audio.”
>A small number of Spotify subscribers have allegedly received prompts encouraging them to upgrade to the new tier, which will reportedly range from an additional $5 to $10 per month. That’s on top of Spotify Premium’s $9.99 per month price; users could be spending as much as $20 per month for access to higher fidelity audio.
>That price is on a par with Tidal’s HiFi subscription, which offers premium features and lossless audio for $19.99 per month.
>With over 40 million paying subscribers, Spotify is in a good position to convert its users over to the higher tier. Now, it’s just a matter of getting the pricing right, because it doesn’t appear the service has quite finalized the details.
>In addition to higher audio quality, a Spotify Hi-Fi subscription may offer other perks, such as discounts on limited-edition vinyls.
Instant FLAC streaming to all of my devices? Oh my.
Joseph Roberts
can you even see bitrate on spotify right now how do i trust this
Jaxson Bailey
you won't be able to tell the difference anyways :^)
Angel Roberts
If you can't notice the difference between lossy and lossless without using visual tools, you're probably better just sticking with lossy to be honest.
Kayden Scott
I was about to subscribe to google play, but hell, lossless streaming will make me switch instantly.
Benjamin Fisher
>paying even more money >even though the default quality is more than enough
Juan Powell
Literally a placebo scam
Jeremiah Reyes
They took so long to get this.
Evan Edwards
snake oil
Dylan Edwards
How is out a scam? If someone wants to buy a placebo and you sell or to them everyone is happy
Brayden Walker
>that joke of a service is still up and running
do they burn investor money or there are literal retards giving them money?
Jaxson Phillips
tidalfags triggered
Asher Miller
>audiophiles >streaming
just threw up a little bit
Colton Jones
>muh power balance scam was genuine brah
Daniel Powell
You can't see the difference between vorbis 320 and flac as you can't place the stones properly on your smartphone, neither it does have high quality antenna for the most pure signal or aural magnetic shield next to the dac
Henry Jones
what a fucking joke. this is basically saying we'll provide a checkbox that does nothing but costs $10 a month. And the audiophiles will eat it up like it's chocolate.
Nathan Sanchez
Still inferior to having a local 10TB .FLAC library and playing it through your riced out foobar2000.
Kevin Peterson
i'm reverse iping this post finding you and killing you
Brandon Robinson
Doesn't spotify already have 320?
What's even the fucking point of streaming flac. Flac is purely for archival reasons.
Carson Mitchell
>Doesn't spotify already have 320? >What's even the fucking point of streaming flac.
320 kbps is not enough for some people, especially those who spend thousands of dollars on audio equipment.
Aaron Wilson
>when you're an audiophile and you can't find a FLAC version of a song so you try to listen to a lossy version and wonder why it isn't a violation of the Geneva Convention on torture
Bentley Bailey
>vinyls >one free vinyl
Mason Adams
web player still uses flash, kill me please
Adrian Morgan
>stream flac from spotify >record with audacity from stereo mix >have free, perfect quality music with no drm
Alexander Hall
The only reason to spend thousands of dollars on audio equipment is if you actually produce music. If you spend that much just to listen to music you're actually retarded.
Kevin Morris
Feels good to use the native desktop/mobile/TV players.
Isaac Cox
>All these poorfags who don't own a pair of studio headphones made in Germany/Japan.
Get out of Sup Forums you filthy plebs
Thomas Clark
b-but my 600's are made in Ireland and they're better than any akg or beyers that I've ever tried.
William Kelly
Spotify desktop app loads tracking pixels over HTTP. Enjoy your botnet.
Also lsof -i | grep LISTEN shows Spotify opening a bunch of ports, but it works fine when these are firewalled.
Browser version of any service is almost always better for security than desktop version. less privileges + sandbox + can inspect devtools
Asher Torres
yan please
Logan Hughes
40 million FLAC tracks won't fit on your NAS, and Foobar doesn't have a lossless radio feature.
Robert Ward
>one free vinyl.
So they ship a vinyl to your home?
Angel Nelson
hehehe
Liam Lopez
jesus fucking christ, can a SINGLE (1) fucking app not try to track me, what the fuck?
Lucas Robinson
>Spotify >a music streaming service that has zero music lmao
Luis Williams
kek
Brayden Young
>streaming FLACs through your Uber driver's sound system
Maybe start listening to more artists than Beyonce or Taylor Swift
Leo Cruz
Jokes on you, faggot, I only listen to Ace of Base.
Isaac Wilson
Jokes on you I don't listen to music in English.
Connor Reed
spotted the pleb
Hudson Ramirez
>lossless streaming What were they doing before, playing the digital files through a speaker and sending an analog signal that was re-interpreted by a sub-server closer to your ISP?
Yes yes I know I'm being pedantic, but lossless audio is pretty much a contradiction in terms.
Hudson Ross
>being a poor peasant who uses uber >not using a limousine service with a man in a tailored suit.
Jordan Carter
This kills Tidal.
RIP Jay-Z who took out $200M debt to buy Tidal and will now have to work until 70 to pay off the debt.
John Long
Difference between 320kbps 800kbps and 1400kbps is fucking huge. I cant listen to yt anymore or anything thats not at least 1100kbps.
DT 990 600 ohm + Schiit
Isaiah Morgan
Good for you? Do you think only music in English is on Spotify?
Well I get "no results found" or incomplete discographies for everything so I guess.
Jose Gutierrez
I'm laffin' at all you tards that most likely couldn't pass a blind test on lossy vs lossless. lmao
Ryan Mitchell
do they offer pullmans? bentleys?
Levi Carter
They literally have an entire category dedicated to just kpop, among other things
Parker Anderson
Wtf > paying for music
Colton Thomas
who gives a shit about plastic gooks
Matthew Sanders
Thanks for informing. Retard.
Thomas Bailey
Hear that? It's my lossy laughter laughing at you fucking placebo-masters, lmao, pleb.
Bentley Collins
Enough people for it to be a category on Spotify
Jaxson Collins
when the fuck are they gonna re-add lyrics support?
Nicholas Thompson
More than $220 a year is too much for me.
I will stick with Apple Music like a poorfag would do.
Henry Harris
good question, i really liked it
Michael Price
I own HD 650's with a dedicated amp/DAC and can't here the difference between 320 Kb/s lossy mp3 and lossless flac.
Joshua Ramirez
And? just because you have inferior genes doesn't mean everyone else does, dummy.
Hudson Cooper
320kbps ogg is enough for me, at least i'm paying 0.99 per month.
>family plan
Nathan Reed
Poor Tidal.
Hudson Jones
You can hear a difference. Sometimes mp3 sounds better than Flac
Jace Phillips
W U T
Justin Smith
it's really sad what Sup Forums has become. bunch of illitarate normies talking about streaming, completely oblivious to various issues and implications of it.
Luke Carter
now this is shitposting
Angel Allen
...
Kevin Brooks
> Sometimes mp3 sounds better than Flac You've traumatized me with your hate speech, user.
Mason Watson
TAEYEON
Austin Turner
Mp3 and flac is all fucken placebo sorry
Grayson Thompson
>1980's tier audio quality is now a "new and premium" feature
Gavin King
> All these morons claiming they can hear the difference between 320 ogg vorbis and lossless > No ABX test results posted Hmmm... Really makes you think...
Thomas Flores
mp3 in 2017 is fucking stupid
flac for lossless and opus for lossy is all you need
