Spotify is on the brink of launch a premium add-on that provides entry to high-fidelity audio, in response to a report from Bloomberg. The brand new tier will reportedly price $5 additional and also will include instruments to assist customers create playlists and handle music libraries.
A supply acquainted with Spotify tells Bloomberg that customers will have the ability to add the HiFi audio tier to their present plans. If added to the Spotify Premium plan, which works up in value to $11.99 subsequent month, it would price $16.99. Bloomberg stories that the add-on will even give customers the flexibility to generate customized playlists for particular actions, dates, and instances of yr. The Verge reached out to Spotify with a request for remark however didn’t instantly hear again.
Code noticed throughout the Spotify app final yr additionally means that the tier may include 24-bit lossless audio, the flexibility to create playlists with AI, a function that filters songs in a playlist by temper, and extra. In April, a Reddit consumer noticed a string of code within the app that claims “lossless has arrived,” whereas one other Redditor later posted leaked UI components mentioning lossless high quality of as much as 2,117kbps and the supply of 24-bit / 44.1kHz for “restricted songs” utilizing the FLAC audio format.