Spotify lossless at last...

[michaelherger]

https://newsroom.spotify.com/2025-09-10/lossless-listening-arrives-on-spotify-premium-with-a-richer-more-detailed-listening-experience/

(no pressure 😂)

[GiantPigeon]

Even looking at the standard Spotify HA Integration - there are no settings for audio quality. Very interested how HA will work, as normally set via the client device (e.g. phone) when using speakers via spotify connect. Does HA act as the client?

[roderickvd]

I'm focusing on a few other things now, but depending on how Spotify implemented this it may actually not be difficult.

Clearly removing the bitrate command line limitations won't work, but some years ago (yeah) I already took care to pave the way for FLAC support in the decoder and audio file selection. If the FLACs and its decryption keys are served over the same way as the Ogg Vorbis files, then that could be quick work... any takers?

[SuisChan]

It would be nice to have real files to check if there is anything to take into account, like with ogg (header) https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot/blob/dev/playback/src/player.rs#L1050 but yeah, it should be a pretty quick work

[kingosticks]

Does anyone actually have lossless available on their account yet? I don't!

[vdbee]

Yes, I have

[RossWilliamson]

This would complete the snapcast home sound setup. Fingers crossed the geniuses here can implement it