topic Re-download tracks in higher quality in Your Library

Re-download tracks in higher quality

GarethUnwin — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 15:26:34 GMT

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Premium

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Device

Desktop PC and Galaxy S22

Operating System

My Question or Issue

I have Spotify on My PC. I then put the App on my Galaxy S22 phone and I think the tracks / albums synced across.

I remember pressing the download on the tracks on my phone so as not to have to stream them but I cannot remember if I used Very high quality or not.

Is there a way to re-download the tracks / albums on my phone to ensure they are in Very High Quality or a way to check what quality they are curently in?

Re: Re-download tracks in higher quality

Luan — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 00:54:15 GMT

Hey, @GarethUnwin
Welcome to the Spotify Community, and thanks for reaching out to us!

For sure! It’s easy to check the quality of your downloaded content. Let’s go ahead:

On the Home page, tap your profile picture;
Tap Settings and privacy;
Scroll to Audio Quality;
Scroll to Download and you’ll see the current audio quality and switch it, if you want to. All your songs will be re downloaded to the chosen quality.

I hope it helps…

Stay awesome!

If you have further questions or if you need anything else, let me know! I'd love to help!

Regards,
Luan 🇧🇷

Re: Re-download tracks in higher quality

GarethUnwin — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 06:07:27 GMT

Hi Luan,

Many thanks for taking the time to answer my question, it is very much appreciated. I hadn't noticed anything saying it was going to re-download anything after changing the settings.

I'm guessing I had already downloaded them them in Very High quality which puts my mind at rest.

Kind regards

Gareth

Re: Re-download tracks in higher quality

Luan — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 17:10:02 GMT

Hey again, @GarethUnwin

Happy to know that my answer was useful to you. If your issue/question was solved, I'd like to ask you to mark my answer as a solution and give me a like! That's important for other people with the same issue to get a useful answer faster.

And remember that you can count on us, always, when necessary!

Best Regards,
Luan 🇧🇷

Re: Re-download tracks in higher quality

soupcan113 — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 01:48:41 GMT

Checking back in here in 2025. With the introduction of lossless, Spotify hasn't created an option to redownload existing downloads in that quality. A message pop ups when the setting is changed explicitly stating that existing downloads won't be affected and only new downloads will be in lossless? Anyone know how to force Spotify to re-download all files with one click? I'm scared that if I click "Remove Downloads" in preferences, I'll be forced to go through each track and playlist and instruct it to download again.

Re: Re-download tracks in higher quality

Joan — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 07:29:45 GMT

Hi there @soupcan113,

Thanks for reaching out.

You're correct in that if you use "Remove Downloads", this will just un-download everything you have saved, so you'll have to save all those again. Due to the high data usage associated with lossless, it doesn't have the automatic re-download as @Luan described, so you'll need to re-download the desired content individually to have them saved in lossless quality.

Hope this clears things up.