You won’t believe it. It turns out that Spotify, the dean of streaming music services, preparing a bombsomething that will change everything in the world of these services forever. I’m talking, and get ready, because it will surprise you, about a version of the service specially designed for the biggest connoisseurs of good sound, with Hi-Fi quality and more, which also aims for some other improvements. with regard to the Premium subscription, i.e. regular payment.

Yes, it’s obviously sarcasm. Well deserved sarcasm Spotify’s Hi-FI plan is live from February 2021more than three and a half years. At the time, you may not even remember because so much time has passed, the company announced that it would be introducing a subscription plan that would include this new feature “at some point in some market” later this year. quality level. It wasn’t anything too specific, but at least it said it would be throughout 2021.

We all remember what happened next. A little less than three months later, in mid-May, Apple Music announced that it was making the jump to Hi-Fi quality, and surprisingly, it was doing so without increasing the subscription price of the service. And if that wasn’t enough, Amazon responded immediately, as you can see in the news linked in this same paragraph. With this blow, Apple seriously jeopardized the possibility of charging for a plan with Hi-Fi quality. There’s no doubt that this was a tough blow, and it’s perfectly understandable that it had a very direct impact on Spotify’s plans..

What is no longer so understood is that since then the announcement has not yet taken place. In March 2023, just after the second anniversary of the announcement, the company’s co-chairman was asked about plans in this regard and responded with a phrase that has remained etched in our memories: “Something will come at some point.” I don’t think it’s necessary to delve deeper… However, months later, new rumors surfaced about Supremio. Would it arrive by the end of the year? Reality has shown us not.

Now in TechCrunch we read that the CEO of Spotify spoke again, as he did a few months ago, about the future arrival of a plan with Hi-Fi quality. On this occasion, it was during the presentation of results to shareholders, but yes, in this case, he said that it would happen “soon”, without giving not only a date, but also a quarter- or even year-level approximation. It seems very, very unlikely (though not impossible) that this will happen before the end of 2024, but given the precedents, we can’t believe it will happen in 2025 either. But of course that doesn’t stop them from talking about it…