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Spotify have it in the works, for release later this year. https://newsroom.spotify.com/2021-02-22/five-things-to-know-...

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> Premium subscribers in select markets will be able to upgrade their sound quality to Spotify HiFi

This sounds like it'll be an additional cost (like it is with Tidal), as opposed to Apple Music. Also I really can't think of a reason why it'd be region-locked.

But anyways, been hoping for this for years and will definitely switch if I'm not geo-locked out of it. I've experimented a lot with FLAC and 320 kbps and I can clearly notice the difference in my mid 20s with a couple of hundred euros worth of audio setup.

One reason it may be region locked for Spotify is that they offer services at throwaway price in certain regions and those regions probably won’t subscribe to a much more expensive variant at enough volume to warrant delivery capacity. They offer Spotify premium for under $2 in Russia and India, for example. Apple offers at similar price point, but they are able to sell expensive phones and earphones that Spotify does not.

" Spotify HiFi will deliver music in CD-quality, lossless audio format to your device and Spotify Connect-enabled speakers".

So they will stream some DRM-ed wav files ?

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