It’s been more than two and a half years since Spotify announced its intention to start offering a subscription plan in February 2021. in which the music catalog would be offered in HiFi quality. At that time, the specific quality level of the files and the price were not mentioned. It was only hinted that it would be released in some countries (also unspecified) later that year. While the proposal was exciting for most music lovers, it was admittedly a really vague announcement on the details. What happened then? We all remember that Apple Music first and Prime Music immediately responded by updating their catalog to HiFi quality without increasing the price of their subscription.

this of course left Spotify disabledbecause it complicated its plans to introduce a higher price for access to HiFi quality, and although at the time there were still other services that charged for this modality, such as Deezer and Tidal, Spotify’s long inactivity left enough time for these services to also reformulate the organization of plans and content and offered more economical access to the catalog in its high-quality version.

Since then, the dean of streaming services he barely showed signs of life in that sense and when they did, as they did earlier this year, it would almost be better if they didn’t say anything. Although all indications were that plans to offer HiFi quality music on Spotify were no longer part of the company’s roadmap, in June we were treated to a surprise, Supremium, as a result of the leak.

Spotify’s new ‘Supremium’ plan with Lossless and more
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At the time of the leak, there was no sign pointing to specific dates, so we didn’t take that as a certainty either. However, as we can read on PhoneArena, Spotify has already started adding Supremium-related features to its appthough of course these are not yet visible. This was discovered by the company Hipexely, which published all its findings on Reddit. This is the full list:

• 24-bit lossless music (no longer labeled as Hifi)
  • They claim that “their technology has zero lag (or lag and lag)”
• The ability to create playlists with AI
• 30 hours of listening to audiobooks every month
  • “Access to included audiobook listening hours is only available to Individual, Duo and Family plan administrators”
• Ability to filter library by mood, activity and gender
• Advanced blending tools
  • Customize playlist order by BPM or danceability, or use “smart order” to create the best sequence using key and tempo.
  • Enables smooth transitions that use set start points to smoothly transition between tracks
  • Filter the playlist by mood and genre
• Sound test: Tells you about your listening habits and discovers which sound mix is ​​”uniquely yours”

Moreover, upon further investigation, it also suggests this The current set price is $19.99 per month, although it clarifies that this value may be provisional. And it makes sense to think about it, of course, because if that were the case, an individual monthly subscription to Spotify would be more expensive than a family subscription to Apple Music, which HiFi also offers.

Finally, he also points out that as a compensation, subscribers to Spotify’s premium modality can he gets 20 hours of audiobook listening every month.