After years of hinting at better sound quality, music streaming service Spotify has finally launched lossless audio. And the cherry on top is that lossless audio will be available to all Spotify Premium subscribers and won’t be locked behind a higher-tier plan as some thought.
It will now be possible to play music in 24 bits and 44.1 kHz with Spotify’s free lossless audio codec on mobile phones, computers, and tablets. It will also be possible to play lossless music on speakers from Bose, Samsung, Sennheiser, and Sony via Spotify Connect, with support for Amazon and Sonos speakers coming next month.
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You can instruct Spotify to play lossless audio only on downloaded songs, when you’re connected to Wi-Fi, or when you’re on a mobile network.
However, Spotify recommends that you only use lossless audio when connected to Wi-Fi and using wired headphones, or connected to a speaker with a connection other than Bluetooth. Bluetooth connections simply don’t have the bandwidth needed for lossless audio.
Lossless audio is already rolling out to Spotify Premium subscribers, but the rollout will take place throughout September and October. Premium subscribers in Australia, Austria, Czechia, Denmark, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, the US, and the UK have already started getting access.
This article originally appeared on our sister publication M3 and was translated and localized from Swedish.
