It appears Spotify HiFi is perhaps dropping someday within the close to future, if the newest leaks are to be believed.
Spicetify, which is a command-line interface device for the desktop Spotify consumer, has posted a number of photographs on its social media account which have mentions of this upcoming function inside the newest v1.2.66 replace.
Spotify 1.2.66 mentions lossless in additional components of UI 👇#NewSpotify #SpotifyLossless #Spotify
Lossless (pigeon) is talked about in “Hook up with the system” sidebar & underneath the artist in NPB (Now Enjoying Bar)
Lossless shall be obtainable as much as 24-bit/44.1KHz (FLAC + Widevine).
Lossless… pic.twitter.com/QYbqg1ZKN3— spicetify (@spicetifyapp) June 19, 2025
For starters, the obvious giveaway is the presence of a brand new choice inside the Audio high quality setting dropdown, which features a Lossless setting that may present as much as 24-bit/44.1kHz audio in FLAC. The onboarding for the app additionally consists of mentions of lossless audio for Premium subscribers.
Except for lossless, it appears Spotify additionally has some new audio options up its sleeve, which, when paired with a suitable pair of headphones, claims to supply “cleaner, extra pure sound”. Digging additional into the code additionally revealed mentions of spatial audio with out additional elaboration.
What’s not seen in these screenshots is what know-how is getting used for spatial audio, as there isn’t any point out of particular codecs equivalent to Dolby Atmos. It is doable the aforementioned cleaner, pure sound function could possibly be utilizing Spotify’s proprietary spatial audio tech that solely works with choose headphones. Furthermore, there may be additionally no point out of excessive decision audio, as sampling charges appear to prime out at a decidedly CD-quality 44.1kHz.
Spatial Audio is talked about within the code, nevertheless, I do not assume it is Dolby Atmos. I do not see any UI or function relating to Spatial Audio both, simply that it exists in code interacting with the participant so, do not count on it anytime quickly pic.twitter.com/EtwM7m1lbw
— spicetify (@spicetifyapp) June 19, 2025
After all, this was all dug out with the assistance of the override product state function within the Spicetify device and none of it’s accessible within the present app. Even with the device, you’ll be able to solely see mentions of the brand new options and never really use them.
Spotify introduced its lossless HiFi function all the way in which again in early 2021. Whereas the corporate did not present a date, it was clear that the function was imminent and probably coming at a better pricing tier than common Premium. Then, Apple determined to rain on Spotify’s parade and launched its personal lossless audio function, full with excessive decision audio and Dolby Atmos, for no extra value.
This possible took the wind out of Spotify’s sails as the corporate instantly dropped all talks of the HiFi function and adopted radio silence. It appears it was utterly caught off guard and since then has been attempting to formulate a viable plan to lastly launch the service. It is doable the corporate may nonetheless find yourself charging extra for the HiFi plan however we’ve got heard over time that there shall be extra content material included to justify it and the corporate has been constructing fairly the content material library exterior of simply music.
As for now, we nonetheless haven’t got a precise date, so this function might both drop tomorrow, two months later, or by no means.