Despite having Ads for the majority of their now 500 million subscribers, they just can’t seem to “stream” a profit. If the licensees require higher stream payments, they would have to. Best sound and hi-res audio support Specifications Starting price (p/m): 9.99 Offline mode (no ads): 9.99 (HiFi) 19.99 (HiFi Plus) Student price (p/m): 4.99 (HiFi) 9.99 (HiFi Plus). So sure, they would want to raise their monthly fees. Spotify already offers some of the lowest payments per stream. Tiny services such as QoBuz are barely hanging in. Tidal is in an amorphous state, having major problems. So far, over the more than two decades that streaming has been around, almost every separate company doing it has failed. Unfortunately, neither option is anywhere close to Hi-Fi (CD quality), which uses a bitrate of 1,411kbps. So Amazon, Apple, Google and possibly Microsoft, if they ever get their act together, will be able to do this.

I’ve been saying for several years that the only companies that will be able to offer music streaming on a large scale will be companies that offer it as a service, as additive to their other, much larger businesses. Spotify HiFi is coming, eventually A report suggests the Apple Music lossless launch spoiled Spotify's HiFi plans, but a Spotify executive has confirmed the new tier is still coming.

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