Spotify HiFi is coming to town — and Tidal just peed its pants AKA a tale of loss Why is Spotify HiFi such a problem for Tidal? Basically, the only reason you’d use Tidal over Spotify is for lossless files. With this gone, Tidal loses its only real competitive edge over many over streaming services. When it comes to flexibility, design, the user interface — anything else you can name, really — Spotify is better than Tidal....
Spotify Hifi’sannouncementin February of 2021 seemed poised to shake up the streaming industry. With the introduction of lossless audio, Spotify would increase its credibility among audiophiles, not just casual listeners. Even ifmost people can’t tell the differencebetween lossless and high-bitrate compressed music, it indicated Spotify was paying more attention to sound quality. At the time,Spotify saidthat HiFi would launch “later this year” and that it would have “more details to share soon....
Users of the free, ad-supported version ofSpotify‘s music streaming client have been at risk from a malware attack, it has emerged. The Registerreports that ‘trojan horse’ malware has been deposited on users’ computers via a Java-based exploit, seemingly linked to third party display ads within the app. According toNetcraft, payloads have been identified by AVG anti-virus software as including a trojan called Generic_r.FZ and a Blackhole Exploit Kit hosted on the uev1....
Well ladies and gentlemen, it’s the news you’ve all been waiting for.Spotifyhas now officially beenlaunchedin the US, ending months of speculation about when – or even if – the cloud-based music service would ever go transatlantic. The free version is available by invite only for the moment, but the paid version is available to one-and-all now. When you receive your invite, you will be asked to download Spotify for your computer and you will be taken through the registration process, which will require you to supply a unique username....
It wasn’t long ago that we told you aboutSpotifylanding Sonyfor its proposed US launch. At the time, we stated that the service would need to landUniversal Musicin order to make the launch a success. That hasn’t happened just yet, but Universal might be further swayed as Spotify has reportedly inked a deal withEMI. According tothe reportcoming from MediaMemo, EMI is now on board with the Spotify crew andWarner Musicmight not be far behind....
