Spotify Lossless Streaming Is Finally Here And It's Included With A Premium Plan

Stop maine if you've heard this 1 before: complete a half-decade of rumors, infrequent teases and affirmations that thing is connected nan way, only for fans to impatiently bide their clip and nan point to yet get pinch very small beforehand warning. No, I'm not talking astir Hollow Knight: Silksong this time. Spotify is yet rolling retired a lossless option that offers higher-quality euphony streaming.

Best of all, nan institution is offering it to Premium members astatine nary other charge. You'll get a notification erstwhile it's enabled connected your account. Starting today, Spotify is rolling retired lossless audio successful nan US, UK, Australia, Austria, Czechia, Denmark, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, nan Netherlands, Portugal and its location territory of Sweden. In all, Spotify Premium users successful much than 50 markets will summation entree to lossless audio by nan extremity of October.

The action is disposable connected mobile, desktop and tablets, on pinch galore Spotify Connect-compatible devices, including Sony, Bose, Samsung, and Sennheiser products. Spotify Lossless will make its measurement to Sonos and Amazon devices, arsenic good arsenic others, adjacent month.

Somewhat annoyingly, you'll person to alteration Spotify Lossless manually, and you'll request to do that connected each instrumentality connected which you want to usage it. To move it connected successful nan Spotify app, pat your floor plan icon successful nan apical left, past spell to Settings & Privacy > Media Quality. From there, you tin take to move connected lossless audio for Wi-Fi and cellular streaming, arsenic good arsenic your downloads. When it's on, you'll spot a lossless parameter successful nan Now Playing position and nan Connect Picker.

Lossless streaming uses much information than different value options, which is why Spotify is offering respective settings for Wi-Fi, cellular and downloads truthful you (hopefully) don't bust done immoderate information caps you mightiness have. You'll beryllium capable to spot really overmuch information nan various options — low, normal, high, very precocious and lossless value — will usage to thief you fig retired which measurement to go.

Spotify Lossless offers up to 24-bit/44.1 kHz FLAC streaming. The institution says nan action intends you'll beryllium capable to watercourse successful "greater item crossed astir each opus disposable connected Spotify."

Of note, nan institution says that you'll get nan champion lossless acquisition erstwhile you watercourse euphony connected Wi-Fi utilizing wired headphones aliases speakers connected non-Bluetooth connections, because Bluetooth doesn't yet person capable bandwidth to support lossless audio. As such, if you effort streaming lossless euphony pinch a Bluetooth connection, nan audio awesome will still beryllium compressed earlier it reaches your ears. It mightiness return somewhat longer for each lossless audio way to commencement playing too, arsenic your instrumentality mightiness request to cache it to debar mid-song stutters.

"The hold is yet over; we’re truthful excited lossless sound is rolling retired to Premium subscribers," said Gustav Gyllenhammar, Spotify's vice-president of subscriptions, said. "We’ve taken clip to build this characteristic successful a measurement that prioritizes quality, easiness of use, and clarity astatine each step, truthful you ever cognize what’s happening nether nan hood. With Lossless, our premium users will now person an moreover amended listening experience."

Gyllenhammar isn't kidding astir Spotify taking its clip to connection lossless listening. It was reported all nan measurement backmost successful 2017 that nan institution was "close" to delivering lossless audio. In 2021, Spotify said it would start offering a CD-quality action that year, but that didn't hap and nan institution has mostly kept mum astir a higher-quality streaming action since (it said successful 2022 a Spotify HiFi acquisition was still successful nan pipeline, but declined to perpetrate to a merchandise window).

Earlier this year, it was suggested that Spotify would yet connection a lossless action successful 2025 and that it would beryllium a $6 per period add-on. Thankfully, that's not rather nan case, arsenic Lossless is included pinch a $12 Premium subscription that will decidedly not get much costly astatine immoderate constituent successful nan future. Nope, nary way. In immoderate case, including it pinch Premium puts Spotify connected par pinch nan likes of Apple Music, which has offered lossless streaming to paid subscribers astatine nary other costs since 2021. Now then, Spotify, astir Dolby Atmos...