Back in 2009, I was one of the lucky few to have an invite to Spotify’s UK launch program, when the future of music discovery was bright and exciting, unlike today’s bleak abyss of arist impoverishment and algorithm-induced repetition. How it’s taken fourteen years for Spotify Lossless to finally arrive on the scene is anyone’s guess, but now that it’s here, my interest in the world’s biggest music platform is piqued once again.

In many ways, I’m the perfect candidate for Spotify Lossless. I have a reasonable ear for quality, am savvy enough to know by bit depths from my sample rates, and own some half-decent audio kit too. Perhaps Spotify’s new setting is perfect for you too, but you should check that you meet these three criteria (in addition to living in one of the 50 supported markets

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