hi res? they dont even offer lossless, which i actually found quite shocking, while scouring the net for a few albums i couldnt find in lossless and having always been a win/lin/android person i wasnt exactly keen on using itunes but i thought "they have their own codec, ALAC but my player can handle it, ill bite the bullet and sign up"<p>it was only after going through the hassle of setting it all up that i discovered that they dont actually offer lossless for sale only as a ripping option, why they dont offer it i have no idea when other providers manage to do it just fine (bandcamp, 7digital, quobuz, ototoy and others)<p>and i have to argue with others there is a market for hi res audio, tidal just didnt offer it correctly, the selection, app and marketing werent good enough to justify the price, before tidal quobuz actually offered a lossless streaming service too but like tidal it was expensive and somewhat limited, plus in general people getting lossless tracks will often prefer to own the albums, that way they can be played on sources that dont support connections like stand alone DAPs<p>while i tried but dropped both tidal and quobuz streaming i would be happy to pay a few extra quid on top of the cost of premium for a lossless version of spotify.<p>lack of high bitrate i can kind of understand, not everything was mastered in 24bit but there should be CD quality lossless available for almost all tracks<p>id guess another possible reason for their not including 24bit files is the new headphone system, bluetooth is ok and all but isnt the fastest or most reliable standard im not sure about 4.1 but 4.0 has a max throughput of around 24mbps, a 320k (or even less aac or whatever apple use) will be much lighter on bandwidth to those wireless headphones, a 24/192 (or worse a 32/384) file would be seriously pushing the bandwidth available via bluetooth (yay, wasnt dropping the 3.5mm jack a great idea!) itll change in time of course, it could be mitigated through buffering and such but it would still hammer battery life comparitively