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

Music quality

Spotify freeSpotify Premium
Web playerAAC 128kbit/sAAC 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

Locate the Spotify prefs file: /Library/Application Support/Spotify/prefs. Open the file in your favorite text editor (I prefer Sublime Text) 4. Add another line and put a value in megabytes right after the equals sign. Relaunch Spotify. You will see your cache has shrunk to the.

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.

  1. Tap Home .
  2. Tap Settings .
  3. Under Music Quality, select your preferred settings.
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  1. Click in the top-right corner and select Settings.
  2. 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.

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

Music quality

Spotify freeSpotify Premium
Web playerAAC 128kbit/sAAC 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

Mac Spotify Equalizer

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.

  1. Tap Home .
  2. Tap Settings .
  3. Under Music Quality, select your preferred settings.
  1. Click in the top-right corner and select Settings.
  2. 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.

Spotify Type Size Macbook Pro

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