Samsung Soundbar (lossless issiues)

[Brendan-LR]

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My Question or Issue

I’m running into a frustrating issue with my Samsung Soundbar S60B and I’m hoping someone here might have insight.

Here’s the situation:

My soundbar appears in Spotify under AV and Bluetooth, so playing music works perfectly fine.

Spotify recently introduced lossless audio, and I these high-quality audio files only support Spotify Connect when listening to an external source.

The weird part: if I open SmartThings, select Spotify Connect, it opens the Spotify app and I can select my soundbar from the list. So that works fine. However, the connection only works via AV.

Connecting via AV reduces the audio quality, which defeats the purpose of using lossless audio.

Both my phone and the soundbar are on the same Wi-Fi network, so network issues shouldn’t be the problem.

It seems like the soundbar should support Spotify Connect for high-quality audio, but for some reason it’s not appearing properly as a Connect device.

Has anyone experienced this with the S60B or any Samsung soundbar? Is there a workaround to get Spotify Connect fully working for lossless playback?

Thanks in advance!

[CryticalAce]

Hey, @Brendan-LR! Welcome to the community!

That's frustrating. Unfortunately, I don't have the soundbar myself to test, but I found this article that has information on connecting the soundbar to Spotify via Spotify Connect. It doesn't mention using Smart Things, which might be what is causing the issue.

I'd also suggest checking if there's a firmware update available for your soundbar. More details can be found here.

Let me know how you go!

Cheers,

Jordan