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Add an indicator to show high-bitrate content

Currently Spotify doesn't show whether the playing song is a high-bitrate version. This causes at least the following problems.

1. User doesn't know whether the playing song is high- or low-bitrate version.
2. User doesn't know whether the current song is even available as a high-bitrate version.
3. User doesn't get the warm fuzzy blacebo feeling that should be associated with the high-bitrate version.
4. Spotify violates Nielsen's first heuristic as it doesn't show the status of the system (http://www.useit.com/papers/heuristic...)
5. User can inadvertently have Spotify set to low-bitrate mode when high-bitrate is preferred.
6. User doesn't know whether a dong played from cache is high-bitrate when the low-bitrate mode is set (and Spotify doesn't tell whether it uses a cache copy high-bitrate songs in low-bitrate mode).
7. If a song is available in multiple versions, the user don't know whether some of those would be available in high-bitrate.

My suggestions to correct this are the following.

1. Add an indicator "light" to show whether the content is high-bitrate or not next to the player controls.
2. Somehow mark high-bitrate content in listings. E.g. add a high-bitrate badge next to the popularity indicator.
 
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