Ask HN: Whatever happened to Spotify lossless

5 pointsgaspoweredcat3 comments

A long time ago I read that Spotify were testing a lossless option called hifi but I've never heard any more, is it still alive?

I’m not sure, but I can’t imagine that many users really wanted it. Or cared.

I have a minor in acoustic recording/physics so I fully understand the lossless desire for some people, but we’re a minority.

My counterpoint: I use Spotify for the super convenient downloading of music. Hit 2 buttons, save + download, bam I got music on my phone.

... with mobile are you actually carrying around high fidelity headphones anyways? I sure don’t, it’s annoying versus small earbuds.

Under preferences, enable "High quality streaming"

That's not lossless.