Spotify is finally launching support for lossless music streaming | TechCrunch

After years of waiting, Spotify has finally launched high-quality, lossless music streaming support for premium account holders.

The company first talks about High-fidelity level for 2021 – CD-quality audio will be provided – but the plan faces multiple delays, Part of the reason is licensing issues. Last year, CEO Daniel Ek said the company is in the “early stage” of launching lossless flow support.

In the past few years, Report and Code prompts In the app, the company plans to introduce a more expensive tier to lossless music, too.

Now, the company ends up providing support for paid users with up to 24-bit/44.1 kHz FLAC mass streams, a format that preserves raw audio quality without compression users. Lossless streaming will be launched to users in more than 50 countries by October, the company said. It added that subscribers in Australia, Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, the United States, the United States and the United Kingdom are already accessible.

When a user can access lossless streams, they are notified on their application. You can enable features from settings and privacy > Media Quality and select “Lossless” quality to stream on Wi-Fi, cellular data and downloads.

The company says the feature is available across devices, but you have to enable it manually for each device. This means that the setting does not work for all devices you use automatically with your Spotify account.

Since files with lossless streams are larger, you will be able to track the data used for the stream. While you can stream lossless mass tracks over Wi-Fi, devices connected to Bluetooth cannot do this due to bandwidth limitations. You can use Spotify Connect to connect devices from companies like Bose, Yamaha, and Bluesound to stream music over Wi-Fi. It is worth noting that Apple has complained about Bluetooth before Bandwidth Limit Used for streaming high-quality music.

Spotify is late to provide users with lossless music. Competitors like it Apple Music Launched in 2021, Amazon Music makes it a Free stream without loss flow After startup Paid HD tiers in 2019. Spotify said this launch covers “almost every track” in its 100 million Sougar library, so there may be some tracks without lossless support.