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Companies are paying Spotify to make you listen to ads every few tracks. Spotify makes less money per-play from ads than they do from Premium subscribers, so to encourage people to upgrade, the free tier is limited in certain ways. When using the desktop or web app with a free account, you can listen to any song, album, or playlist at any time.
Spotify has a range of audio quality options to suit your device, plan, and preferences.
- Spotify free: Spotify Premium: 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.
- The Spotify web player is a web-based media player you can use to access Spotify. Whether you're listening in the office or at a friend's house, it's great for those who can't - or don't want to.
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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 Free mp3 music downloads spotify. 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 |
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).
Higher streaming quality uses more data, and higher download quality uses more space.
- Tap Home .
- Tap Settings .
- Under Music Quality, select your preferred settings.
Spotify Play Music
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- Click in the top-right corner and select Settings.
- Under Music Quality, select your preferred settings
Play Spotify Without Downloading
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. https://fairyyellow.weebly.com/blog/spotify-android-app-not-updating-facebook.
Spotify Player App
On mobile/tablet, if you change the music quality to low, the podcast quality will also lower to approximately 24kbit/s.