After four years of promises and eight years of rumour, Spotify finally rolled out lossless compression across the world last September.
In the app’s audio quality settings, in addition to the long-standing Low (24kbps, gulp!), Normal (96kbps), High (160kbps) and Very High (320kbps) quality settings, there is now a lossless one. This promises “Up to 24-bit/44.1kHz” in FLAC format. In reality, the great majority of lossless streams are currently CD-standard 16-bit/44.1kHz.
