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This is going to affect my monthly fee, isn’t it?
Incoming Spotify premium plus subscription tier. With lossless audio. And then shortly after some previously premium tier features to go plus. Then ads appear on the premium, I mean basic tier (priced at the old premium price).
That was what they were planning to do, a new premium tier that would have lots of extras but then Apple released lossless audio as part of the standard base tier so Spotify gave up on it
To me I don't really get it, I've had flac audio files in the past and I haven't really found much difference in audio quality above 192k
Just to confirm there is no new tier for this
https://www.techradar.com/audio/spotify/audiophiles-rejoice-spotify-lossless-is-finally-here-and-its-a-huge-step-for-the-streaming-service
You have to listen to loud music on good headphones to hear any difference.
Also usually mid range is compressed OK, it's the very highs that get distorted.