![]() ![]() Otherwise, the following steps should help ensure the best quality on all the devices you can stream Spotify on. So if you want the best sound quality in Spotify, you need to manually activate the best settings.Īgain, keep in mind the 320 kbps setting is exclusive to Premium subscribers. You might assume Spotify would ramp up to 320 kbps when using Automatic mode with a strong Wi-Fi connection (after all, 320 kbps is nothing compared to modern video streaming), but as best I can tell, the service will max out at 160kbps with this setting.ġ60 kbps( with the Ogg Vorbis codec Spotify uses on most devices) isn’t bad, but it’s certainly significantly easier to tell apart from lossless than 320 kbps. On most devices, Spotify defaults to a variable ‘Automatic’ setting and offers four fixed playback tiers: 24 kbps (Low), 96 kbps (Normal), 160 kbps (High), and 320 kbps (Very High). The highest bitrate supported by the streaming platform is 320 kbps, which should be largely indistinguishable from lossless, but in most cases, the streaming app does not guarantee this playback quality. ![]() The gist of it is that the vast majority of people - including audio enthusiasts - cannot tell the difference between lossless audio and ‘lossy’ encoded at a high enough bitrate audio.īut that argument makes one important assumption: you are already listening to Spotify Premium with optimal settings. ![]() I recently wrote that you shouldn’t have huge expectations about sound quality improvements when upgrading from Spotify Premium to the upcoming lossless HiFi tier. ![]()
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