Spotify’s lossless audio rumored to reach very quickly … once more

Spotify’s lossless audio function hasn’t been launched but regardless of being introduced just a few years in the past. Though each few months new stories floor that declare lossless audio is about to get launched, the ever-surprising Spotify disappoints us.

The newest rumor claiming Spotify’s lossless function is about to be launched comes from Reddit (by way of The Verge). Screenshots of the app’s UI revealed by Redditor OhItsTom recommend that the music streaming service has determined to rebrand Spotify Hello to Lossless.

In response to the screenshots, the standard of lossless audio will likely be going as much as 2,117kbps on the “Supremium” plan, whereas the present bitrate is proscribed to a most of 320kbps. That can eat almost 16MB of knowledge per minute.

The lossless audio function can even embody listening assist of as much as 24-bit/44.1kHz, which can solely be accessible for “restricted songs” by way of the FLAC audio format.

Even when the massive majority of listeners received’t be capable of inform the distinction between customary and lossless audio (except they’re musicians), it’s actually stunning that Spotify hasn’t been capable of launch such a function contemplating that its opponents (Apple Music, Amazon Music, Tidal) already provide this profit.

Sadly, it’s onerous to inform if the brand new model of lossless audio will undergo one other iteration or Spotify lastly decides to present it the inexperienced gentle.