Spotify are reportedly set to launch a brand new ‘Supremium’ tier that incorporates further options for greater costs.
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A report in The Impartial say the brand new tier will value twice the present value at $19.99 (£16.33) and that it’s going to provide lossless audio – a function at present supplied on Apple Music totally free.
The tier can even reportedly embrace new statistics about listening, a brand new audiobook function in addition to AI playlist technology instruments. The Impartial say the modifications have been famous by know-how skilled Chris Messina, who, in line with the publication, “discovered mentions of the replace with Spotify.”
The brand new audiobook function has already been rolled out and it permits customers to stream as much as 15 hours of audiobooks totally free every month.
The streaming platform rolled out the brand new function within the UK and Australia earlier this week (October 3), and are set to carry it over to customers within the US by the tip of the 12 months. Spotify first started introducing audiobooks to its library in September final 12 months. Nevertheless, they had been by no means supplied to customers totally free, and even premium subscribers needed to pay individually for every title.
The brand new replace for audiobooks is simply one of many new options that Spotify has been rolling out this 12 months. Simply final month, the platform launched Showcase – a brand new device which permits artists to pay to have their music promoted on the positioning’s homepage.
AI has additionally been seen on Spotify not too long ago through the usage of an AI DJ that routinely selects and introduces songs and a function that enables folks to hearken to podcasts in different languages with AI voices.
In different Spotify information, final month the corporate’s boss, Daniel Ek, weighed in on the controversial debate about the usage of synthetic intelligence in music – confirming that the streaming service has no plans to utterly ban AI-generated content material.
