As we’re about to go into 2023, Spotify remains silent on when it would start offering CD-quality streaming like its competitors. No official time frame has been revealed, even with Spotify’s promise that they would be rolling out HiFi streaming in select markets around the time of year we are currently in.

Since February 2021, Spotify has yet to reveal a specific date as to when it would release its HiFi streaming tier. Some wonder if Apple Music throwing in lossless streaming at no additional charge was a way to combat Spotify’s announcement, hence the extended delay. Since these announcements, Spotify has yet to reveal when their HiFi streaming tier would become available. Other services like Tidal and Qobuz had already been offering HiFi streaming for some time.

Amazon Music had also gone HiFi a couple of months before too. Soon after this announcement, Apple Music upgraded its library to lossless streaming at no additional charge. Back at the start of 2021, Spotify announced it was going to offer a new membership tier that would introduce lossless, CD-quality streaming to their subscribers. It is almost the end of 2022, and Spotify is still streaming at 320kbps.

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