
And considering the price is the same as for the lossy tier, it’s a win for everyone. The high-fidelity album and AI radio station were previewed in March to hundreds of clinicians, scientists, patients, and public health experts at NextMed Health. It puts pressure on creators to make their tracks sound as good as possible, and it puts pressure on the competition to rid themselves of crappy lossy codecs in favor of a lossless solution. Make no mistake about it, Spatial Audio is a giant move forward when it comes to the distribution of higher fidelity audio. The popular music streaming service plans to offer a new Spotify HiFi subscription level later this year. The expectation was that the company would bring it out as a higher priced product, but Spotify might now be pressured into the status quo of keeping the price the same as its lossy tier. USA TODAY 0:00 0:52 Spotify is going hi-fi. Of interest here is that Spotify announced that it will launch a high-fidelity service in February but never discussed pricing.

Almost instantly Amazon Music also announced that it was lowering the price for its hi-res tier to $9.99 per month as well, putting pressure on services like Deezer, Tidal and Qobuz that still have their hi-fi tiers price substantially higher. What no one was expecting is that the price for Spatial Audio will remain the same as for the lossy Apple Music tier – $9.99 per month for a single user, and $14.99 per month for the family plan. Based after the hit movie High Fidelity this podcast will being you weekly Top 5 lists with special guests and two quirky hosts.
