Except perhaps for the folks in Cupertino. With plans to expand to an additional 85 new markets and launch Spotify HiFi, there is no chance for any rival to overtake them. With almost 175 million Premium subscribers, the streaming titan has a sizable percentage of the digital music streaming category. Spotify is clearly the Godzilla of the streaming world. Those of us who understand the power of Spotify saw this as a huge opportunity for the high-end audio industry to reach a new audience.
If we take a look back at 2021, Spotify made a huge deal about Spotify HiFi and even hired the services of Billie Eilish to promote their massive foray into “hi-res” streaming.Įven when that was only going to be 16-bit/44.1kHz streaming for its premium subscribers. Let’s keep ourfingers crossed.The bottom line is that Spotify doesn’t have a date yet and I would not expect to see it in Q1 2022. Spotify still remains one of the world’s most popular music streaming apps, it won’t take long before the race for hifi streaming becomes a catch-up game. Popular guesses is that Apple Music’s pattern to lossless music made Spotify rethink its own, so it recently requires a little bit more time to brood. The reason behind the delay has not be categorically stated. Together with the fact that both Apple Music and Spotify are both $10 a month, the previous suddenly becomes the better deal.
What’s interesting is that in the case of Apple Music, the upgrades are done for free for already existing subscribers, which makes it more enticing than Spotify’s current proposal an additional cost on top of the existing Premium subscription. Apple Music has recently added a spatial audio feature last year, while Tidal has offered MQA music in its catalog since 2017. Spotify is experiencing a lot of pressure to bring this feature, especially now that they have a lot of competitors in the market.
0 kommentar(er)
