announces a plan with music in HiFi quality from 2021. However, its introduction has been postponed many times. that the new subscription is to debut soon, because the company is basically ready to introduce it.
Spotify will introduce a new subscription with HiFi music
High quality music will be available only to people who decide to subscribe to the new subscription, which is called “Supremium” in the company. Its price is unknown. For comparison, the regular “Premium” subscription costs $9.99 in the United States. for an individual account and $15.99. for a family account. In Poland, it is PLN 20 and PLN 29.99, respectively.
According to Bloomberg, the “Supremium” subscription is to be presented in some markets later this year. Only after that is it supposed to hit , which indicates that the company wants to test the new option first. It is not known exactly what HiFi quality means. informed in 2021 that we are talking about 1411 kbit/s, which gives a quality similar to CDs.
The competition has long had this option
Tidal boasts an offer with high sound quality. The basic “HiFi” subscription costs PLN 19.99 a month, and for this price we get up to 1411/kbit (as much as according to reports Spotify “Supremium” can offer). The more expensive subscription in HiFi Plus costs PLN 39.99, which allows you to listen to music in quality up to 9216 kbit / s in “innovative” audio formats Master Quality Authenticated (MQA), Dolby Atmos, Sony 360 Reality Audio and HiFi.
Music, in turn, offers lossless, i.e. the highest possible quality within the basic subscription, which costs PLN 22. To this end, the company developed its own Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) technology
Source: Gazeta
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