Spotify is actually exhausted with its future plansr. And I repeat, as I have said more than once, that I have been a (paid) user of the service practically since the beginning of the service, and it still seems to me that the good far outweighs the bad. However, and as I’ve mentioned on occasion in recent years, the company seems to have subscribed to a policy of announcing news that doesn’t materialize (and you know what I’m talking about), or that ends up being far less than originally promised.

In case you’re wondering what I was referring to in the text in parentheses, yes, indeed, I mean a great unfulfilled promise, which is the Hi-Fi quality version of the service for now. A promise that was made in February 2021, now three years, six months and one day ago, and of which we have only had… smoke, either in the form of leaks in the analysis of the Spotify application code, or statements of some responsible persons.

Until now, in terms of official statements, we have experienced the peak of supply in March of last year, when company co-chairman Gustav Söderström, when asked about plans to launch Spotify Hi-Fi, He stated, quote, “at some point something will come of it«. Sensational, a response that dispelled doubts and, above all, showed great respect for users who remain on the service, despite the fact that alternatives at the same price provide lossless and surround sound.

Well, it seems that after more and more leaks about it, someone decided it was time to talk about it again. In this way, as we read in Digitaltrends, Spotify’s CEO confirmed that a much better version of Spotify is on the way, referring to the Hi-Fi version. However, it confirmed that this premium version of the service will have an additional cost of around five dollars, so in the United States it expects it to be between $17 and $18.

Obviously, after such a statement, it is expected to share more information, such as the expected launch date and the markets it will reach first, the level of sound quality, whether it will offer other benefits, for example also filtered access to 20 or 30 hours a month of audiobooks etc. right? Well no, none of that, not a single answer to the series of questions he refuses «it’s still early«. Is it too early, Daniel Ek? Is it too early to start answering questions three and a half years after the announcement?