Spotify Music Quality Settings

Spotify allows you to access its catalog of over 30 million tracks with a free subscription, but the music quality is different from Premium subscription. Here is a comparison list:

	Spotify Free	Spotify Premium
Desktop	Ogg Vorbis 160kbit/s	320kbit/s
Web player	AAC 128kbit/s	256kbit/s
iPhone/iPad/Android	Ogg Vorbis Normal – Equivalent to approximately 96kbit/s. High – Equivalent to approximately 160kbit/s. Automatic – Dependent on your network connection.	Ogg Vorbis Normal – Equivalent to approximately 96kbit/s. High – Equivalent to approximately 160kbit/s. Extreme – Equivalent to approximately 320kbit/s. Automatic – Dependent on your network connection.

How to adjust Spotify audio settings?

Desktop

Click the arrow

in the top-right corner and select Settings.
Under Music Quality, switch High quality streaming (Premium only) on (green), or off (gray). When you turn on the option, the stream opens up to 320 kbps.

Web player

It's currently not possible to adjust audio settings on the web player.

iPhone/iPad/Android

1. Tap Your Library

in the menu at the bottom of the screen.
2. Tap Settings .
3. Tap Music Quality.
4. Select your preferred settings.

On iPhone, iPad and Android, you can have different settings for listening online (Stream quality) or offline (Sync quality). The higher the Streaming quality, the more data will be used. The higher the Download quality, the more disk space used.

The "Extreme" setting on both mobile and computers is really noticeable when you use a good pair of headphones or speakers.