Spotify Premium: Now Streaming in Lossless Quality

[MattSuda]

Lossless audio quality has been one of the most requested features in the Spotify Community, and now it's finally starting to roll out to Premium listeners in select markets. Premium subscribers will receive a notification in Spotify once Lossless becomes available to them.

Spotify Premium users will be able to listen to high-fidelity music in up to 24-bit/44.1 kHz FLAC!

Get ready to lose yourself in Lossless with the best sound quality! 🔊

Lossless is rolling out gradually to these markets (more than 50) through October: United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, France, Netherlands, Spain, Poland, Italy, Japan, Sweden, Belgium, Norway, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Austria, Denmark, New Zealand, Finland, Ireland, Taiwan, Portugal, Israel, Greece, Hungary, Singapore, Romania, Slovakia, South Korea, Hong Kong, Bulgaria, Croatia, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Iceland, Serbia, Luxembourg, Slovenia, Cyprus, Malta, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Albania, Montenegro, Kosovo, Andorra, Liechtenstein, Monaco, San Marino.

How to enable Lossless audio quality:

1. Tap on your profile icon in the mobile or desktop app.
2. Go to Settings.
3. Open Media Quality.
4. Select where you want to enable Lossless audio quality: WiFi, cellular, downloads.
   
   ● When Lossless is activated and you tap on your device in the Connect menu, it will show you the file quality of the current song you are listening to and how much data per hour it will use. The file quality will show as Lossless 16-bit or Lossless 24-bit. Files are in the FLAC format and can be up to 24-bit/44.1 kHz.
   
   ● You can also change the audio quality settings from the Connect menu. You will need to enable Lossless manually on each device, even for Connect devices.
   

Lossless overview:

● Lossless is available on mobile, desktop, and tablet, as well as on many devices that support Spotify Connect, including Sony, Bose, Samsung, Sennheiser, and more. Support for additional devices, including those from Sonos and Amazon, is coming soon.

Note: Some Connect-enabled devices don't support Lossless quality

● Everyone listens differently, so there are custom settings for WiFi, cellular, and downloads. Choose between Low, Normal, High, Very High, and now Lossless music quality to provide maximum flexibility and control. You'll be able to see how much data each of these requires to make choosing easier.

● Only music is available in Lossless audio quality. Music Videos, Podcasts, and Audiobooks are not available in Lossless quality.

● Lossless uses a lot more data and requires a strong internet connection. Lossless also uses more storage for downloaded songs. WiFi is the recommended connection for streaming music and downloading songs for offline listening.

● Lossless is not always recommended for use on cellular, metered, or weaker internet connections. When you enable Lossless for the different quality settings, there will be a few different prompts. These prompts will ask you to acknowledge that for smooth playback, you'll want a strong WiFi or cellular connection and that Lossless will use a lot more data and storage. This is to ensure that you understand Lossless uses more data and it helps to prevent unexpected charges on capped data plans.

● It is recommended to stream Lossless music on WiFi using wired headphones or speakers on a non-Bluetooth connection, like Spotify Connect. Currently, Bluetooth doesn't provide enough bandwidth to transmit lossless audio, so the signal has to be compressed before being sent.

● You will need to enable Lossless manually on each device, even for Connect devices. When Lossless is activated, the app makes it clear that it's activated and which device you are streaming from. In the desktop and mobile app, look for the green Lossless label on the Now Playing view / bar and on the Connect Picker.

● Once you have activated Lossless for streaming, the quality changes for the next song, it does not change mid song.

Note: Downloaded songs will be played in the quality that they were originally downloaded in, even if you are currently on a WiFi connection. If you want your Offline Backup and downloaded songs to be in Lossless, you will need to clear them first and then re-download them. If you change the streaming quality, song files that were already cached in a higher quality than the selected quality will be preferred.

You can read more info about Lossless in the Spotify Newsroom post:

➜ Lossless Listening Arrives on Spotify Premium With a Richer, More Detailed Listening Experience

You can get more help with Lossless and changing audio quality settings in the support articles:

➜ Spotify Support Article: Lossless Audio Quality

➜ Spotify Support Article: Audio Quality