Downloaded playlists not updated when changing sound-quality

[feviskus]

Hey there,

I changed the quality of downloaded songs from normal (on mobile ~96 kbps) to extreme (~ 320 kbps), but my playlists are not updated / redownloaded accordingly.

Do I really have to manually turn off the download slider, and then turn it on again on each playlist in order to redownload the playlist / songs in extreme quality?  

[Joe · Accepted solution]

You need to redownload the playlists. I recommend reinstalling spotify, following the steps here to make sure none of the original downloads linger then redownload your offline music at the higher quality.

[feviskus]

Joe, thanks for your fast response.  

Do you know if Spotify is going to change this behaviour?

[Joe]

I doubt they will - it's probably easy enough to automate redownloading music when the quality setting is changed but I can see a lot of complaints that spotify is suddenly redownloading all the offline music and not deleting the existing downloads causing a waste of storage space (I  doubt that android OS would permit spotify to delete files on our phones) .