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# Spotify Preps Launch Of Hi-FI Music Tier
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/spotify-preps-launch-of-hi-fi-music-tier/
- Published: 2017-03-02T10:59:03.000Z
- Updated: 2017-03-02T10:59:03.000Z
- Description: [UPDATED] Hi – Fi, Hi-Rez or Lossless. Whatever you want to call it, higher quality music streaming offers a new revenue opportunity for both streamers and rightholders. A new public. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2017/03/spotify-preps-launch-of-hi-fi-music-tier.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Music Business, Music Tech, Streaming, Apple Music, Chaos and Disorder, Jay-Z, Little Red Corvette, Prince (musician), Purple Rain (film), Spotify, Streaming media, The Gold Experience, Tidal (service), #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:13

[![spotify ](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201bb097ef8e6970d-150wi "spotify ")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201bb097ef8e6970d-popup?ref=hypebot.com)\[UPDATED\] Hi – Fi, Hi-Rez or Lossless. Whatever you want to call it, higher quality music streaming offers a new revenue opportunity for both streamers and rightholders. A new public test signals that Spotify is about to join Tidal in offering a premium hi-fi music tier.

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Spotify is openly testing a lossless streaming option. Currently called Spotify Hi-FI, the offering became available to select Premium subscribers yesterday as part of a what appears to be an A/B test to determine the best price point.

Spotify began the test with select users yesterday, offering "hi-fi quality lossless" streaming at $5, $7.50 and $10 above the $10 per month price for Spotify Premium. But several [Reddit users](https://www.reddit.com/r/spotify/comments/5wprlm/in%5Fapp%5Foffer%5Ffor%5Fspotify%5Fhifi%5Flossless%5Ffor%5F750/?ref=hypebot.com) who attempted to sign up for the lossless music service got either an error message or one saying that it was not available in their area.Signs that Spotify was prepping a Hi-Fi launch first surfaced two weeks ago when an email survey asked some users if they would pay $5 above the $10 premium service for lossless audio. When [The Verge](http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/1/14776780/spotify-hi-fi-preparing-launch-lossless-audio-tier?ref=hypebot.com) reached Spotify for comment yesterday, a spokesperson said only, “We are always testing new products and offers but have no news to share at this time."Without providing any exact numbers, Tidal has said that a large number of its estimated 3 million subscribers pay an extra $10 for its lossless audio teir. **UPDATE:** Deezer also offers Deezer Elite hi fi streaming, available exclusively to Sonos customers registered to Deezer.

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