How to Improve the Streaming and Download Audio Quality on Spotify

When talking about which music streaming service you should choose, the sound quality that the services delivery is one of the most important factors you will take into consideration. Tidal perhaps is one of the most well-known services which offer high-fidelity sound, referring to the music files that haven’t been compressed, and while most other streaming services, including Spotify, though delivers the most comprehensive and complete experience, but compressed music files (decent 320Kbps quality) in a way.

So if you want all your music from Spotify sound amazing, you can take multiple methods to improve sound quality. And here we list the best ways you can refer to change or improve the streaming or download audio quality on Spotify.

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Part 1: What Audio Bitrate does Spotify Use to Stream?

Before introducing the audio bitrate used by Spotify for streaming, it is necessary to simply define what audio bitrate is.

In the field of digital multimedia, bitrate often refers to the number of bits used per unit of playback time to represent a continuous medium such as audio or video after source coding (data compression). In audio, this usually means kilobits per second. For example, the music you downloaded on Spotify is 320 kilobits per second, meaning there are 320 kilobits of data stored in every second of a song. Generally, the higher the bitrate of a track, the better the quality of sound is, but the more space it will take up on disc.

Until now, Spotify offers low, high and extreme sound quality settings. The normal Spotify bitrate setting is 96 kbps, the high bitrate is 160 kbps and extreme is 320kbps. And in March 2018, Spotify tested a new lossless audio version (Spotify Hi-Fi, similar to CD quality offered by Tidal) of its streaming service. Now, let’s see the different audio bitrate used by Spotify on multiple devices.

Spotify Streaming Audio Quality on Desktop:

The desktop app’s standard quality is Ogg Vorbis 160kbit/s.

Premium subscribers can choose to switch on High quality streaming, which uses 320kbit/s.

Streaming Audio Quality on Web Player:

The web player’s standard quality is AAC 128kbit/s, and 256kbit/s for Premium.

Note: It’s not possible to adjust audio settings on the web player currently.

Streaming Audio Quality on iPhone and iPad

You can choose the following audio quality settings (all in the Ogg Vorbis format) on your iPhone and iPad.

Low – approximately 24kbit/s.

Normal – approximately 96kbit/s.

High – approximately 160kbit/s.

Very high – approximately 320kbit/s.

Automatic – depends on your network connection.

Streaming Audio Quality on Android:

You can choose the following audio quality settings on Android phone or tablets.

Low – approximately 24 kbit/s (HE-AACv2 format).

Normal – approximately 96kbit/s (Ogg Vorbis format).

High – approximately 160kbit/s (Ogg Vorbis format).

Very high – approximately 320kbit/s (Ogg Vorbis format).

Automatic – depends on your network connection.

Streaming Audio Quality on Chromecast:

Spotify streaming sound quality used by Chromecast is standard AAC 128 kbit/s and Premium 256 kbit/s.

Part 2: How to Change the Streaming Audio Quality on Spotify?

It is very easy to change the streaming audio quality of Spotify, and the operation is slightly different on different devices.

On desktop: Click the arrow in the top-right corner and select Settings, under Music Quality, switch High quality streaming (Premium only) on or off.

On iPhone, iPad and Android: Tap Your Library > tap tap > Music Quality to choose the streaming and downloading quality you prefer.

Part 3: How to Improve the Streaming Audio Quality on Spotify?

1. Upgrade to Spotify Premium

Spotify Free plan only offers 96 kbps and 160 kbps for choosing from to stream, but 320 kbps with Spotify Premium. To improve the streaming sound quality of Spotify, you can upgrade to Spotify Premium.

2. Listen to Music with Wi-Fi Connected

Depends on the different network connection status, the streaming audio bitrate also differs. That is to say, the higher bitrate when streaming, the more amount internet traffic increases accordingly. To enjoy or download the music with high sound quality, please make sure that you are on good Wi-Fi connection to save your data plan.

3. Use the Equalizer to Enhance the Playback on Mobile

You can also use the built-in Equalizer tool on Spotify mobile phone app to improve the quality of music playback, which lets you adjust the levels of music you’re listening to by choosing over 20 presets covering different types of music genres and frequency configurations.

Go to Your Library tab > tap on icon > tap the Playback option > tap Equalizer, then you can tap one of the more-than-20 equalizer presets which including Acoustic, Classical, Dance, Jazz, Hip-Hop, Rock, and more, or make a custom equalizer setting by using your finger on the graphic equalizer dots to adjust individual frequency bands up or down.

4. Use High Quality Earphones or Speakers

Listen to Spotify music on sound systems, stereos, headphones, and speakers, you will experience the ultimate in music streaming sound quality.

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In the following part, we will show you how to download and save tracks, playlists, and albums from Spotify with high sound quality (320kbps) kept by using Sidify Music Converter.

Step 1 Run Sidify Music Converter

Download and install Sidify Music Converter on your Windows PC or Mac, then launch this music converter.

Step 2 Add Spotify Song or Playlist

Click on icon in the Sidify main interface, if prompted, you can copy and paste a song or playlist link to Sidify clipboard, or drag & drop a song, playlist or album to the adding window directly.

Step 3 Customize the Output Setting

Click on icon in the top right corner, when a setting dialogue popup, you can choose the output format (MP3, AAC, WAV, FLAC, AIFF, ALAC), conversion mode, output path, and output quality to 320kbps.

Tips: To better organize the music library after conversion, you can choose to save the output music files into organized folder: Artist, Album, Artist/Album, or Album/Artist.

Step 4 Start Conversion

Click on Convert button to start converting Spotify song, playlist, or album to plain audio formats.

After the conversion is completed, you can click icon to find the well-converted Spotify music with 320kbps high quality kept.

That’s all to illustrate how to change and improve Spotify streaming audio quality, and how to save Spotify music to MP3 with 320kbps high quality kept. You can download Sidify Music Converter to discover more extra ordinarily powerful feature sets.

Note: The trial version of Sidify Music Converter enables us to convert the first 3 minutes of each audio file for sample testing, you can purchase the full version to unlock the time limitation.

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