It appears Spotify HiFi is perhaps dropping someday within the close to future, if the most recent leaks are to be believed.
Spicetify, which is a command-line interface instrument for the desktop Spotify shopper, 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 components of UI 👇#NewSpotify #SpotifyLossless #Spotify
Lossless (pigeon) is talked about in “Connect with the machine” sidebar & beneath the artist in NPB (Now Enjoying Bar)
Lossless can be accessible 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 possibility 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 contains mentions of lossless audio for Premium subscribers.
Other than 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 expertise is getting used for spatial audio, as there is no such thing as a point out of particular codecs resembling Dolby Atmos. It is attainable the aforementioned cleaner, pure sound function could possibly 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 prime out at a decidedly CD-quality 44.1kHz.
Spatial Audio is talked about within the code, nonetheless, 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 instrument and none of it’s accessible within the present app. Even with the instrument, you may solely see mentions of the brand new options and never truly 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 more than likely 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 price.
This probably 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 making an attempt to formulate a viable plan to lastly launch the service. It is attainable the corporate may nonetheless find yourself charging extra for the HiFi plan however we now have heard over time that there can 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.
