Option to stream in Lossless quality while keeping lower download quality

[Viggohendriks]

Dear Spotify team,

I really enjoy using Spotify, but I’ve run into a frustrating limitation with the quality settings.

At the moment, I can set download quality and streaming quality separately, but once a track is downloaded, Spotify will always play the downloaded version — regardless of the streaming quality I’ve selected.

This means that if I download my music in High Quality (to save storage space), I can no longer listen to that track in Lossless over Wi-Fi — even though that’s exactly what I’d like to do.

It would be a huge improvement if Spotify allowed:

• downloads to remain at a lower quality, but
• automatically stream the lossless version when on Wi-Fi.

This way, I could save space on my device while still enjoying the full lossless experience whenever possible.

I hope you will consider adding this feature in a future update, as it would significantly improve the listening experience.

[ircm021]

So my idea here is , I download my favorite songs on Spotify on normal quality so that it doesn’t take much space on my phone, but I want to hear them at lossless quality when I’m on WiFi, when I play them while connected it plays the download (normal quality) instead of streaming it on the max quality, so there should be an option to “force” lossless while connected to the WiFi.

thanks in advance 

[CryticalAce]

I like this idea, would work really well for me as I download a lot of songs as I don't have internet access most of the time at work but when I do, I would like to listen to all my songs in Lossless quality!

[TechyGiraffe999]

At the moment no matter if you are on WiFi and have specified a quality higher than what you have downloaded for a song Spotify will automatically play the downloaded track and not stream the song.

This is extremely frustrating as someone who wants to save storage by downloading songs in a lower quality format, but also values high quality listening and is on WiFi most of the time.

It feels like I have to sacrifice one premium benefit to get another, especially since I download most of the songs I listen to for scenarios where I am offline.

It would be great if while on WiFi and assuming in media quality the user has already stated they want a higher quality file while on WiFi or they are on auto-adjust quality, Spotify could detect that their downloads might not be in the highest quality and instead stream the content in a higher quality instead of using the download.

[keen222]

I wish it would be possible to download music at low quality and play it at low quality only when I'm outside without WiFi, and then use lossless or other high-quality audio at home or other WiFi-enabled locations.

It's so disappointing that with the current specifications, I can only stream music at the downloaded quality. Because I have little storage space left on my smartphone, I download at low quality, which results in low quality audio when streaming, which is really **bleep**.

Please improve this.

When streaming, I'd like a setting that prioritizes lossless or other audio quality instead of just playing the downloaded version.

This is making me wonder whether I should switch to Apple Music.

[tofo29]

• I would also be happy if this would be implemented

[mxtt606]

I have just got access to lossless and noticed this too. It would be amazing to have this feature.

[juneeor]

At the moment, if I have downloaded a list of songs from a playlist in 'Very High' quality, but I have also selected 'Lossless' quality when connected via Wi-Fi, Spotify will play these downloaded songs with Very High quality (instead of Lossless) when I'm connected via Wi-Fi. 

Suggestion to (maybe add an option) allow the corresponding selected quality to play when online, and only play the Downloaded quality when offline.

Downloading Lossless will increase storage capacity use.

[XMARX]

Yes, this is ecactly my wish as well

[dburt218]

Definitely. 

[PinoyzIIMen]

Probably an oversight. Most people wouldn't want to download in Lossless because of the massive file size per song. So there should either be a feature to prioritize Lossless streaming or to at least manually override a song to play as Lossless.