
After some delay, we anticipated that 2022 would be the year that the streaming giant gave the option of lossless audio to subscribers, but disappointingly it wasn't to be one of the year's audio highlights.Īs Söderström suggests, adapting to industry changes could point to Apple Music introducing spatial audio and lossless support in 2021 for no additional cost. When it announced the new HiFi tier in 2021, Spotify promised it would roll out in “selected markets," and it seemed reasonable to think that the new lossless tier would arrive imminently. The industry changed and we had to adapt." Gustav Söderström, Spotify


"We are going to do it, but we’re going to do it in a way where it makes sense for us and for our listeners.
