Spotify has been promising a CD-quality “Hi-Fi” tier since last year, well actually, they promised it would be released in 2021, yet here we are almost at the end of 2022 and it’s still not in the wild…
With only a reduced quality offering, most Roon users wouldn’t be much interested in a Spotify collaboration.
You’re fairly new here. Stick around awhile and read some of the big threads and you’ll get a flavour of the Roon user base.
I appreciate Danny’s comments about Spotify offering access to a much wider user base, however, I can’t see the average Spotify user wanting to take up a Roon subscription, let alone wanting to embrace the hardware and network requirements that running a Roon core requires.
If Spotify were to offer at least a 16/44.1 tier and Roon integration was a possibility, I’d be delighted. There’s a lot of stuff not on Qobuz that’s available on Spotify. I migrated a lot of Spotify playlists into Roon via Qobuz, but there’s still a lot of missing material. I bailed on Tidal once they sold out to MQA…