![]() ![]() Apple does not charge extra for spatial audio, and this feature also went live on June 7. A Qobuz Studio subscription costs $14.99/month.Īlong with the launch of its lossless and hi-rez streaming service, Apple made another announcement: the availability of “thousands of songs in Spatial Audio from some of the world’s biggest artists and music across all genres, including hip-hop, country, Latin, pop, and classical.” Spatial audio tracks are encoded using Dolby Laboratories’ Atmos immersive audio technology. ![]() By contrast, Tidal charges $19.99/month for its hi-rez tier. Amazon Music HD also costs $9.99/month, or $7.99/month for Prime members. A single-user subscription to Apple Music costs $9.99/month (all prices in USD). Primephonic, Qobuz, and Tidal also offer hi-rez content-but Apple Music provides lossless and hi-rez music at no additional cost. Of course, many smaller services, including Deezer, Idagio, Primephonic, Qobuz, and Tidal, have had lossless tiers for years. So, strictly speaking, Apple got to the party before Spotify-but after Amazon. Apple began offering lossless and hi-rez music on June 7, day 1 of its 2021 Worldwide Developers Conference. ![]() But it has not yet launched Spotify Hifi, or announced details such as pricing. Spotify announced plans for a lossless tier during the company’s Stream On event on February 22. In fact, it would make sense to flip the order around. With the company’s May 17 announcement that it was planning to make the 75 million songs in its Apple Music catalog available in lossless format, and that a substantial number of tracks would be available in high resolution (up to 24-bit/192kHz ALAC), all the major streaming services have now joined the lossless party. First Amazon, then Spotify, and now Apple. ![]()
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