It appears Spotify HiFi may be dropping someday within the close to future, if the newest leaks are to be believed.
Spicetify, which is a command-line interface instrument for the desktop Spotify consumer, has posted a number of photographs on its social media account which have mentions of this upcoming function throughout the newest v1.2.66 replace.
Spotify 1.2.66 mentions lossless in additional elements of UI 👇#NewSpotify #SpotifyLossless #SpotifyLossless (pigeon) is talked about in “Connect with the system” sidebar & underneath the artist in NPB (Now Taking part in Bar)Lossless will likely 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 throughout 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.
Apart from lossless, it appears Spotify additionally has some new audio options up its sleeve, which, when paired with a appropriate 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 expertise is getting used for spatial audio, as there is no such thing as a point out of particular codecs equivalent to Dolby Atmos. It is doable the aforementioned cleaner, pure sound function may very well be utilizing Spotify’s proprietary spatial audio tech that solely works with choose headphones. Furthermore, there’s additionally no point out of excessive decision audio, as sampling charges appear to high out at a decidedly CD-quality 44.1kHz.
Spatial Audio is talked about within the code, nevertheless, I do not suppose it is Dolby Atmos. I do not see any UI or function concerning Spatial Audio both, simply that it exists in code interacting with the participant so, do not anticipate it anytime quickly pic.twitter.com/EtwM7m1lbw— spicetify (@spicetifyapp) June 19, 2025
In fact, this was all dug out with the assistance of the override product state function within the Spicetify instrument and none of it’s accessible within the present app. Even with the instrument, you possibly can solely see mentions of the brand new options and never really use them.
Spotify introduced its lossless HiFi function all the best way again in early 2021. Whereas the corporate did not present a date, it was clear that the function was imminent and probably coming at the next 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 seemingly 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 would possibly nonetheless find yourself charging extra for the HiFi plan however we’ve heard over time that there will likely 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 an actual date, so this function may both drop tomorrow, two months later, or by no means.
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