Spotify has a range of audio quality options to suit your device, plan, and preferences.
The high quality streaming is also available with the free version of Spotify, but give the Extreme stream quality a try if you have Premium for the best audio quality and test the waters with.
Music quality
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Web player | AAC 128kbit/s | AAC 256kbit/s |
Desktop, mobile, and tablet | Automatic: Dependent on your network connection Low: Equivalent to approximately 24kbit/s Normal: Equivalent to approximately 96kbit/s High: Equivalent to approximately 160kbit/s | Automatic: Dependent on your network connection Low: Equivalent to approximately 24kbit/s Normal: Equivalent to approximately 96kbit/s High: Equivalent to approximately 160kbit/s Very high: Equivalent to approximately 320kbit/s |
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- Free, Category: Artist, Albums: Live, Hit The Ground Running (Live), Fire And Water, Chronicles, Free Live!, Singles: The Stealer (RocknRolla Soundsystem Remix), All Right Now, Top Tracks: All Right Now, All Right Now, All Right Now - Single Version, Wishing Well, Oh I Wept, Biography: Famed for their perennial 'All Right Now,' Free helped lay the foundations for the rise of hard rock.
- Spotify desktop services runs via Wi-Fi, so the assumption is that signal strength and quality is more consistent than it is with a mobile device and there is less need for a low quality sound option. Spotify Premium members are given the choice between normal and high bit rate, so either 160 kbps or 320 kbps.
- Spotify’s audio quality limit is still 320kbps (the maximum bitrate threshold for MP3), which it calls ‘very high quality’ in its audio settings menu. This is available to Spotify Premium subscribers at a cost of £9.99 ($9.99) per month.
- Spotify Premium: Spotify Free: Monthly Price: $9.99 (or $4.99 for students or $14.99 for a 6-account family deal) Free: Annual Price: $99: Free: Library: More than 40 million songs.
Change music quality
Turn music quality up to hear the finer details or turn it down to save data.
Note: You can’t change audio settings when using Spotify Connect to play on another device.
You can have different settings for listening online (streaming quality) or offline (download quality).
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Higher streaming quality uses more data, and higher download quality uses more space.
- Tap Home .
- Tap Settings .
- Under Music Quality, select your preferred settings.
- Click in the top-right corner and select Settings.
- Under Music Quality, select your preferred settings
You can’t adjust music quality on the web player. Download the app to get more features.
Podcast quality
Podcast quality is equivalent to approximately 96kbit/s on all devices except the web player where it’s 128kbit/s.
On mobile/tablet, if you change the music quality to low, the podcast quality will also lower to approximately 24kbit/s.