Encouraging people to consider a traditional 2 channel stereo system.

hilde45

Spotify does not yet offer lossless, but honestly, who cares?

I think truth and accuracy matter. So when the AI that you quoted proclaims:

Spotify HiFi (forthcoming)

That’s just laughable. Spotify lossless has been "forthcoming" for years:

Spotify HiFi is the popular music streaming service’s long-anticipated entry into lossless (CD-quality) streaming. The tier was announced back in February 2021 (although teased as many as seven years ago!) and promised to launch by the end of that year... and yet it still isn’t here.

@cleeds - So much for AI? AI can only work with the information it's given; if that's what Spotify says, and the question was about Spotify, then the answer was spot-on. It's not AI's job to come up with a conclusion like 'This is laughable - Spotify lossless has been 'forthcoming' for years'.... 

larsman

... It's not AI's job to come up with a conclusion like ... Spotify lossless has been 'forthcoming' for years'.... 

But that's not a "conclusion." It's an absolute fact:

The tier was announced back in February 2021 (although teased as many as seven years ago!)

More people are consuming music now over any other time in history. 

That being said, quality is not as important. Most kids use cheap earbuds, or cheap BT speakers. Most young people use Spotify, they do not offer Hi-rez streams. Not sure it's important for Spotify's huge market share. If it was, they would offer it. What that tells me, most people want selection and ease over quality. 

My kid (14yo) loves music, has music playing all day long. Most of it is K-pop with some bands we share. My kid listens on their phone 80% of the time, cheap cd player 10% of the time, then my system (records) the rest. They are happy to just have the music playing, don't want a high end complicated system. Put my old setup in their room, it almost never gets used. 

Been into music all my life in one form or another. In my youth, volume level was most important. It wasn't until my late adult life, that sound quality became more important. 

My point is, music is important to young people, sound quality is not so much. 

@mswale 

You make a good point, in that today's 14-year-olds don't care much about sound quality, but neither did we at their age. And look at us now!

By the same token, your kid may very well be a dedicated audiophile some day. Just give them a couple of decades :)