Spotify HiFi delayed — and there's no word on when it will finally arrive

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Spotify HiFi won't be with us for a while yet, as company delays its lossless tier roll out

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Spotify's long-awaited HiFi tier appears to have been pushed back indefinitely, with the company admitting there’s no current timeline for its release.

It’s been almost a year since we heard that Spotify’s HiFi tier was coming, offering songs in a lossless format and near-CD sound quality for Premium subscribers. Rumors of a lossless beta version only helped to fuel our excitement that the world’s most intuitive and integrated music streaming app would soon deliver our favourite tunes in high-quality audio. 

But in a thread that appeared on Spotify’s Community site concerning delays to the launch of the lossless tier, the company dashed hopes of us being able to listen to high-quality streams from the service any time soon. 

“We know that HiFi quality audio is important to you,” the comment said. “We feel the same, and we’re excited to deliver a Spotify HiFi experience to Premium users in the future. But we don’t have timing details to share yet. We will of course update you here when we can.”

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Lee Dunkley
Lee Dunkley

Lee was Tom's Guide's audio editor, where he covered all things audio for Tom's Guide, including headphones, wireless speakers and soundbars and loves to connect and share the mindfulness benefits that listening to music in the very best quality can bring. As a former editor of the U.K.'s Hi-Fi Choice magazine, Lee is passionate about all kinds of audio tech and has been providing sound advice to enable consumers to make informed buying decisions since he joined Which? magazine as a product tester in the 1990s. Lee has joined the passionate audio experts at audiograde.uk where he writes about luxury audio and Hi-Fi.