Spotify is finally launching high-quality, lossless music streaming support for premium account holders after years of waiting.

The company first talked about a hi-fi tier in 2021 — which would offer CD-quality audio –but the plan faced multiple delays, partially due to licensing issues . Last year, CEO Daniel Ek said that the company was in the “early days” of launching lossless streaming support.

Over the past few years, reports and code hints in the app suggested that the company was planning to introduce a more expensive tier for lossless music as well.

Now the company is finally releasing support for up to 24-bit/44.1 kHz FLAC quality streaming — a format that preserves the original audio quality without compression — for paid users. The company said lossless streaming will

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