Spotify Hifi: Mixing Your Music Well Will Be Essential! At the end of the year, Spotify HiFi should land in Europe and the USA.
This time the Swedish platform is not the first to launch into the world of HiFi; indeed, platforms such as Tidal and Amazon Music already offer a lossless audio service (i.e., music without loss of sound data) at very affordable prices.
The arrival of Spotify HiFi means two things:
- Needless to go around it, Spotify has the most interesting music and the greatest variety of genres, as well as an algorithm that can create great playlists.
- Being able to hear them in HiFi only increases Spotify’s appeal.
- The excellent news for you who make music is that you can finally let your listeners hear even the most interesting nuances of your music without worrying about the data compression performed by the lower-quality audio.
- This also means that with Spotify HiFi, it will matter a lot more to mix your songs well and all the music production in general.
How will Spotify HiFi work?
The HiFi service will initially be launched on “Select Markets.” What does it mean?
Surely the first to be able to listen to Spotify’s high fidelity music will be Europeans and Americans, the two most interesting markets for the Swedish platform.
Spotify HiFi will be on subscription, probably as a “luxury” alternative to “standard” Spotify Premium.
To understand this, non- HiFi music, therefore standard quality has a bit rate of 320 kbps. The music offered by Spotify HiFi will instead have a bit rate of 1411 kbps, a big difference!
Artists are the first to recognize the importance of Spotify HiFi; having their music heard in a higher quality format allows greater freedom of expression from a musical point of view. You will be able to listen to every nuance you want to give to your songs.
How much will Spotify HiFi cost?
Honest answer: we don’t know!
But one can rely on competitors’ prices to make an estimate.
Tidal HiFi’s individual plan currently costs $19.99, while Amazon Music costs $15.
Spotify will most likely rank slightly below because it is currently the industry leader and can afford to cut prices and because Tidal and Amazon Music also offer higher quality than Spotify’s CD quality.
What quality will HiFi audio have?
The standard format for streaming music is 320 kbps.
Many fans and artists have often complained about this quality compression. Years of exposure to kitten videos on Youtube and trappers who use autotune even when asking for coffee at the coffee shop have accustomed our ears to too low quality.
- Fortunately, vinyl’s revenge is bringing high-quality audio back into fashion.
- In numerical terms, Spotify HiFi will (probably) have a bit rate of 1140 kbps.
- Really another world.
- If you are a Spotify user, it is clearly important to be able to listen to your favorite playlists in the highest quality.
- But if you are an artist, what can Spotify HiFi do for you?
- Spotify HiFi means that you have to mix your music well, much more than before
- Up to this point, the article has focused on what HiFi music can do for the user.
- From the artist’s point of view, things change a bit.
Your main concern as an artist putting his music on Spotify is to be heard.
How to get into a Spotify playlist
We have already written enough on how to increase the ratings on Spotify or enter playlists.
But we have written less about the importance of mixing your music well before offering it to Spotify editors or uploading it through your digital distributor.
Now you find a lot of online services that offer you mixing and mastering at bargain prices. Behind a bargain price, there is also equally low quality.
With Spotify HiFi, those who listen to you will also be able to hear your breath as you sing if you want to include it, which opens the door to a large number of expressive possibilities that were previously limited by the poor audio quality of streaming platforms.
For this, you have to consider much more carefully than before whether to mix your music yourself or to rely on expert hands for the most important parts.
