Spotify has a range of audio quality options to suit your device, plan, and preferences.
What Quality Is Spotify
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 |
Change music quality
Turn music quality up to hear the finer details or turn it down to save data.
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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.
- 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.
Spotify Mac Extreme Quality Group
On mobile/tablet, if you change the music quality to low, the podcast quality will also lower to approximately 24kbit/s.