Frustratingly, there’s no official standard for Hi-Res Audio, which is better than CD quality. Where the files are still compressed, ensuring nothing important is lost from the recording, you will get a faithful copy of the original. Lossless audio needs to be clarified with Hi-Res Audio. Lossless audio has music tracks and is encoded to avoid losing any data. But the key term here is “lossless,” meaning that the audio stream contains the same sonic detail as its source. In this Spotify, the audio at 320Kbps is in the “lossy” Ogg Vorbis format, which means the audio stream has been compressed and is losing a fair amount of detail in the interest of conserving bandwidth, as per techhive. As per the recent update, Spotify HiFi might still have a chance to be released. This means streaming audio encoded with 16-bit depth and a 44.1kHz sampling rate.

It announced the release of the HiFi over a year ago, but has still not released, making us wonder if it will ever get to see the limelight. Spotify announced Spotify HiFi in February 2021.

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