All the technical work has been completed. The industry changed and we had to adapt.”Īlso according to The Verge, Spotify HIFI is actually ready to go.
We are going to do it, but we’re going to do it in a way where it makes sense for us and for our listeners. Gustav Söderström, Spotify’s co-president, had this to say to The Verge: “We announced it, but then the industry changed for a bunch of reasons. The company announced something called “Spotify HIFI” in February 2021, saying that it’s coming soon. And third, Spotify, the biggest and most popular streaming music platform, has yet to get to get on board. Second, the bandwidth of Bluetooth is insufficient to transmit hi-res files to wireless headphones. First, iPhones lack the capacity to play back uncompressed FLAC files. Several things continue to hold back widespread adoption. The result are streams that sound at least as good as a CD, if not better.
This opened the door to streamers like Tidal, Amazon Music, Qobuz, and a few others to offer data-rich high-resolution streaming. It’s still too expensive in some countries (hello, Canada!) but it’s not as bad as it used to be. In the early days of online music, we needed compressed files like MP3s because data was so expensive.
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