Well before we had lossless music in Apple Music, and back when Tidal was pretty much the only streaming service to offer high fidelity audio streaming, there were murmurs about Spotify adding support for lossless audio.
It’s been years since those first murmurs, and for the most part, I assumed that Spotify has stopped working on the feature completely. After all, it still manages to be the music streaming service with the most subscribers.
However, new code in the Spotify desktop app seems to hint towards a lossless tier in Spotify after all. The code was spotted by Chris Messina (link) who said that the Spotify app code now contains lines such as “Lossless music, now in premium”, which hints at an imminently arriving lossless feature in Spotify.
Toasty Take
Well, “imminently arriving” might be a bit of a stretch. We’ve been hearing about Spotify imminently launching a lossless tier for years, so I am certainly not holding my breath this time around.
However, since lossless music is highly requested, and in many cases, expected by users, Spotify might do well to actually work on implementing it sooner rather than later.
It remains to be seen whether the new-found code snippets in the Spotify app are actually evidence that the company is slowly building out the feature for a launch soon, or something that’s years away.