Spotify has a range of audio quality options to suit your device, plan, and preferences.

Music quality

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

Normal: Equivalent to approximately 96kbit/s

High: Equivalent to approximately 160kbit/s

Very high: Equivalent to approximately 320kbit/s

Manually upload and compress any image. Shopify doesn’t allow access to every single image in your store. We’ve therefore made it easy for you to compress images your home page and blog posts using the manual upload and compress feature. Priority Support. We’re here to help. Up until now, Spotify has compressed audio down to a bitrate of 160 kbps on desktop or 96 kbps on mobile devices — Spotify calls this rate “normal.” Paid subscribers also have a “high.

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.

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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 Free Music App

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.

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On mobile/tablet, if you change the music quality to low, the podcast quality will also lower to approximately 24kbit/s.