Shortly after, Amazon Music made the exact same move, increasing sound quality without raising the price of the subscription. The Swedish company Spotify took a few months to announce that it was already working on a HiFi version of SpotifyHowever, in the last 3 years, we have not had any news.
The move by Apple and Amazon was obviously focused on stealing customers from Spotify, since, being a company that only has this business, they know that they could not afford to offer higher sound quality without raising the price, something they could do perfectly both Tim Cook’s company and the one managed by Jeff Bezos at that time.
Fortunately for Spotify, this improvement in the sound quality of its biggest rivals did not represent a hard blow for the company, a company that has continued to grow at the same pace as before. When it seemed that Spotify had already forgotten to improve the sound quality of its platform, Bloomberg points in another direction.
It was not a hard blow because in order to enjoy lossless streaming music at a higher quality, we cannot use any wireless or wired headphones that we have at home, since these are not capable of reproducing all the nuances it offers. And, taking into account that most users do not invest a lot of money in this purchase, it is not surprising that Spotify was not affected.
Spotify Hi-Fi will be more expensive
According to Bloomberg, citing a person familiar with Spotify’s plans, the Swedish company plans to launch a new premium subscription plan that will introduce lossless audio as well as new tools for streaming. list creation and in the library administration.
These new tools to create playlists will allow users to create lists immediately based on certain activities or events and adapted to the user’s musical tastes, thus avoiding having to search for already created lists and wasting time looking for the one that is adapts to each type of person. This new plan will not have the same price as the normal subscription, but will be 5 dollars more expensive than the individual plan.
If we take into account that Spotify recently announced an increase in the price of subscriptions in the United States, an increase that should not take long to reach Europe, the price of the individual subscription located at 11.90 dollars will rise to 16.99 euros with the plan lossless audio.
In this way, it would be at the same price as tidal, the artists’ streaming music platform that, since its launch, has always offered its entire catalog without losses. At the moment, Bloomberg does not know if this mode will also be available in the Duo and Family subscription that the company offers and if so, what its cost will be. The launch of this plan would be scheduled for before the end of this year.