"Will man get to Mars sooner?", questioned Reddit user Chaturbate23 in the final days of 2024, upon realising that a fourth year was indeed about to come to a close without the arrival of the promised lossless Spotify streaming. We – and likely anyone who has also been waiting on tenterhooks for this so-called Spotify HiFi subscription tier to materialise – share their exasperation. After all, it's been just over four years since Spotify announced it would soon be joining the lossless streaming sphere, and eight years this month since the first Spotify HiFi rumours surfaced.
Since Spotify's official announcement in early 2021 confirming that the much hinted-at HiFi offering was coming, there has been a steady stream of reports and rumours around its delay and future appearance, not to mention addresses from the company CEO himself.
