Yikes.

So they kill their Car Thing player leaving customers with e-waste, add a bundle of features with high fidelity audio which only 1% of systems will benefit from, while jacking up the price. Well done Spotify, you have successfully enshitificated your service.

Code spotted within the Spotify app last year also suggests that the tier could come with 24-bit lossless audio

At 44.1k, 16bit is CD quality which is perfectly good enough. But no, dupe people into paying more for something they can’t use. Typical.

• Laughs in Tidal.

so many people think they’re “audiophiles,” yet say “ok, that’s good” when they asked for more “sizzle,” but you only pretended to boost the 4K and didn’t change a damn thing