Spotify is lastly launching high-quality, lossless music streaming help for premium account holders after years of ready.

The corporate first talked about a hi-fi tier in 2021 — which might supply CD-quality audio –however the plan confronted a number of delays, partially on account of licensing points. Final yr, CEO Daniel Ek mentioned that the corporate was within the “early days” of launching lossless streaming help.

Over the previous few years, studies and code hints within the app instructed that the corporate was planning to introduce a dearer tier for lossless music as effectively.

Now the corporate is lastly releasing help for as much as 24-bit/44.1 kHz FLAC high quality streaming — a format that preserves the unique audio high quality with out compression — for paid customers. The corporate mentioned lossless streaming might be rolling out to customers in in over 50 nations by way of October. It added that subscribers in Australia, Austria, Czechia, Denmark, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, the US, and the UK are already getting entry.

Customers will get a notification on their app after they get entry to lossless streaming. You possibly can allow the function from Settings and Privateness > Media High quality and choosing “Lossless” high quality for streaming on Wi-Fi, mobile knowledge, and downloads.

The corporate mentioned that the function is offered throughout units, however it’s a must to manually allow it for every machine. Which means the setting doesn’t apply to all of the units you utilize together with your Spotify account routinely.

As information with lossless streaming are bigger, it is possible for you to to maintain monitor of how a lot knowledge you’ve gotten used for streaming. When you can stream lossless high quality tracks over Wi-Fi, this isn’t doable for Bluetooth-connected units on account of bandwidth limitations. You should utilize Spotify Join to connect with units from firms like Bose, Yamaha, and Bluesound to stream the music over Wi-Fi. Notably, Apple has additionally beforehand complained about Bluetooth’s bandwidth restrictions for streaming high-quality music.

Spotify is late to ship on its guarantees of constructing lossless music accessible to customers. Rivals like Apple Music rolled it out in 2021, and Amazon Music made its lossless streaming free after launching a paid HD tier in 2019. Spotify mentioned that this launch covers “practically each monitor” in its 100-million-son library, so there is likely to be some tracks with out lossless help.