topic Re: Mobile Data Usage in iOS (iPhone, iPad)

Mobile Data Usage

LuchoChile88 — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 01:11:58 GMT

Ive been using Spotify since february 1st, no more than an hour or two a day, and being today february 4th, ive already used 131mb... Is this normal? It feels like its using too much. I have a 4s iPhone, latest iOS available...latest spotify update still pending.

Please help 😞

Re: Mobile Data Usage

OviiiOne — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 16:41:59 GMT

Hello and welcome to the community!

Yes, it's normal, I recommedn to choose the lower quality. You also can upgrade to Premium in order to sync songs and listen in offline mode.

Re: Mobile Data Usage

LuchoChile88 — Sat, 07 Feb 2015 17:44:51 GMT

Hey there, im already using Premium, how do i choose lower quality?

Re: Mobile Data Usage

OviiiOne — Sat, 07 Feb 2015 18:00:33 GMT

Tap this button:

Go to Preferences, choose Music Quality and choose the lower quality.

Re: Mobile Data Usage

LuchoChile88 — Sat, 07 Feb 2015 18:49:29 GMT

Hmm the only music quality choices i have are Normal (recommended), High, and Extreme

Re: Mobile Data Usage

adisib — Sat, 07 Feb 2015 19:29:25 GMT

The bitrate for the qualities is as follows:

Normal: 92 kilobits/second

High: 160 kilobits/second

Extreme: 320 kilobits/second

This means the amount of data for one hour of playtime is:

Normal: 43.2 megabytes

High: 72 megabytes

Extreme: 144 megabytes

It is greatly reduced however by utilizing the Spotify cache. This means if you listen to a song you listened to recently, less data is used than would normally be needed. But if you are listening to many different songs the cache wont make as much of a difference.

For downloading the songs to listen to them without using any mobile data to stream after the download (premium only), check out the FAQ here and select iPhone:

https://support.spotify.com/learn-more/guides/#!/article/Listen-offline