Spotify to offer lossless streaming service

[morerajendra5678]

Most spotify users are free users. And then there are a ton of cracked spotify users who don’t afford Rs 130 a month for music. And many are hiding behind shared family plans across the friends circle.

Your observation is spot-on. But I truly believe that most of this lot of users are either college students at various levels or undergoing some professional training sort of or are freshers on a first job who have joined some kind of IT firm or manufacturing firm.
For most college students or ones undergoing any professional course, the Spotify subscription fee is unjustified expense. But for them Spotify is a gold mine of music college and those who stick to it for years do so because they have discovered love for music.
If Spotify looks into deeper aspect of this, at one point when the same students settles in life with better salary and affordability, they tend to become long term paid users. Also Spotify has created an Audiophile out of a common man by virtue of the gold mine it carries.

 

[abhinavsri01]

Has anybody gotten lossless in India?

 

[Analogous]

There are plenty of those everywhere. All markets have their challenges - not just India.
Many of those users eventually become regular subscribers when their circumstances change.


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Different markets dictate different pricing and strategies. The costs of these services offered by existing players will influence this too.
But for international companies the costs and efforts required to start a new service and the revenue expected when entering a new market will be used to decide which countries to start with.
India is a big market and the “ease of doing business” here and the (protected?) competitors might be important factors in deciding when spotify lossless services will be started.

 

[ajuvignesh]

There are plenty of those everywhere. All markets have their challenges - not just India.
Many of those users eventually become regular subscribers when their circumstances change.


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Hopefully. But not until this free mindset shatters. If spotify managed to convert these people, they hit a goldmine.

 

[ajuvignesh]

Your observation is spot-on. But I truly believe that most of this lot of users are either college students at various levels or undergoing some professional training sort of or are freshers on a first job who have joined some kind of IT firm or manufacturing firm.
For most college students or ones undergoing any professional course, the Spotify subscription fee is unjustified expense. But for them Spotify is a gold mine of music college and those who stick to it for years do so because they have discovered love for music.
If Spotify looks into deeper aspect of this, at one point when the same students settles in life with better salary and affordability, they tend to become long term paid users. Also Spotify has created an Audiophile out of a common man by virtue of the gold mine it carries.

Yeah but 65% of Spotify users are between 25 and 45. The 80s, 90s crowd.

 

[bornfi]

I got lossless here in USA yesterday. In a nutshell, more resolution and expansive soundstage.

 

[Passive_audio_enthusiast]

I got lossless here in USA yesterday. In a nutshell, more resolution and expansive soundstage.

Same here. But I cannot hear any sound difference .

 

[AP@1992]

Has it landed in India ?

 

[Sean de Silva]

Same here. But I cannot hear any sound difference .

Has it landed in India ?

This is all I see so I guess it hasn't yet arrived

 

[Passive_audio_enthusiast]

This is all I see so I guess it hasn't yet arrived

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I live in Germany

 

[bornfi]

This is all I see so I guess it hasn't yet arrived

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You will see something like this.

But prior to this, did you ever have this kind of notification?

 

[bornfi]

Same here. But I cannot hear any sound difference .

When music is playing, are you seeing the word 'Lossless' like this below?



If not, you will need to change the setting appropriately.

 

[Sean de Silva]

You will see something like this.
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Good to know thanks !

But prior to this, did you ever have this kind of notification?
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Not that I remember nope

 

[bornfi]

Good to know thanks !

Not that I remember nope

I got lossless almost after two weeks when this flashed.

 

[Sean de Silva]

I got lossless almost after two weeks when this flashed.

Reply from chatbot




Reply from support so now it's a game of patience

 

[hifimaddy]

I got lossless more than a week ago; there is a difference I can hear. I feel like there is a wide soundstage.

 

[Analogous]

I got lossless more than a week ago; there is a difference I can hear. I feel like there is a wide soundstage.

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How did you get the Spotify lossless stream? Is it available in Indiya now?
Your guidance please?

 

[hifimaddy]

Spotify lossless is not available in India now. First, lossless is rolling out in 50 countries, but sadly, India is not there. I guess in their second rollout, India will be there. The second rollout will maybe be in November or December.

Spotify Premium: Now Streaming in Lossless Quality

Lossless audio quality has been one of the most requested features in the Spotify Community, and now it's finally starting to roll out to Premium listeners in select markets. Premium subscribers will receive a notification in Spotify once Lossless becomes available to them. Spotify Premium...

community.spotify.com

 

[hifimaddy]

@bornfi @Passive_audio_enthusiast I have listened to some very old Bollywood songs; everything plays lossless audio, but the quality feels like MP3

 

[bornfi]

@bornfi @Passive_audio_enthusiast I have listened to some very old Bollywood songs; everything plays lossless audio, but the quality feels like MP3

I do not think this is the case with me. The music is more rich and expansive now. The decays are more prominent or can I say, more graceful. I can understand if the track has not been recorded using the full potential originally, the difference between lossless and MP3 will not be that great. On top of this if your system is not very reflective of what it is fed with, you will have this challenge.