This guide will show you how to change the location where Spotify stores any files that you flag to download in order to be able to play them when you’re offline. This can be particularly helpful if you have a large library and want to store it on an external drive.
The Spotify Android app lets you choose between five sound quality settings: Low (24kbps), Normal (96kbps), High (160kbps), Very high (320kbps), and Automatic (dependent on your network connection). Notification Settings page - allows you to choose which communications you receive from Spotify, manage your publicly available personal data, and set your sharing preferences. For more information about the personal data you can control from your Account Settings page, see data rights and privacy settings. Spotify download cnet. 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 I own the Blood Red Cherry CD that has that song, so I ripped it to WAV and used iTunes to encode it to AAC.
Note: this screenshots/images used in this guide are from macOS. If you use the Windows version of Spotify, the steps are nearly identical.
Tap the Settings button at the bottom of the app to access the Spotify Settings page on your mobile device. These are useful preferences that you can switch on or off when you want to make important adjustments, such as listening to music at a lower quality if you’re out and about, and don’t want to consume too much data usage.
Downloading the Spotify app first to prepare the following operation. One Step to Set Your Music Quality on Spotify - Run the Spotify app on your computer or mobile devices, and the whole main interface of Spotify will appear. Now click to 'Down-arrow' button to enter the Settings page. On the Settings page, scroll down to 'Music Quality'.
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Open the Spotify Preferences by selecting Spotify from your Menu Bar, and then Preferences from the pull-down list. Windows users: select Edit and then Preferences…
Scroll to the bottom of the Spotify Preferences and click the SHOW ADVANCED SETTINGS button.
Scroll down until you find the section titled Offline Songs Storage. Click the CHANGE LOCATION button.
Now select the folder where you want Spotify to save files for offline listening etc. It’s worth mentioning that Spotify creates a bit of a ‘mess’ when it stores files – it utilizes a lot of coded folder and file names. You will almost certainly want to create a specific folder to store all of the other folders that Spotify will create.
When you’ve selected the new location, restart Spotify.
When you re-start Spotify it’ll move all of the files to the new location. As illustrated in the screenshot below, it does create a rather confusing series of folders with just as “strangely” named files inside them. It’s OK – you’re not meant to really be sorting through them, it’s just the way Spotify stores things.