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Rethinking LOSSLESS Streaming Quality on WIFI

I’m sure there are thousands, if not millions, of users missing out on lossless audio streaming just because they want their full library on download and don’t have device storage for their entire library to be downloaded as lossless. If you’re like me, every “Liked Song” is downloaded to your device for offline streaming (plus some more). However, this really defeats the purpose of lossless audio for users wanting to stream lossless audio while only on WIFI connection; since the streaming quality always defaults to the local, downloaded quality (even when you are connected to WIFI). Considering the storage needed to download lossless audio songs, it is pretty impractical to download every song in your Liked Songs as lossless. Under this scenario, the only way to listen to a song in “lossless” quality would be to listen to songs that are not in your downloaded Liked songs, playlists, albums, etc. There should be a feature to default your streaming quality by your service connection and NOT by the downloaded quality: so, say you want a song downloaded as either “normal”, “high”, or even “very high” quality but you still want to listen to that song as “lossless” audio only when you’re connected to WIFI. Or maybe an option to stream the songs that you downloaded (on normal/high/very high quality) on a higher quality (lossless quality) while only connected to WIFI. I understand Spotify has an option to choose streaming quality on WIFI, however, this option/feature has a major flaw: if you stream previously downloaded songs, your streaming quality reverts to the downloaded audio quality, making the lossless audio option a very niche— partially useless— feature. 

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middleincomehousedog

running into the same predicament myself. Once I realized my already downloaded songs won’t play in lossless I redownloaded all my songs in lossless just to realize I wouldn’t have enough storage half way through downloading and had to download all over again in very high quality. still coming to terms with that because of the way I download all of my music, I unfortunately won’t be utilizing lossless audio 😔

conor_mcbride11

it has come to my attention the user @viggohendriks has already posted an idea on the thread at https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Option-to-stream-in-Lossless-quality-while-keeping-lower... . @viggohendriks did a fantastic job explaining a solution to this dilemma and has gained a considerable amount of attention on his idea already. 

dead_eye

I have my downloads set to very high but streaming lossless i wanna be able to listen to lossless at home wifi it should be community choice to get the experience they paid for otherwise pretty much no one is using lossless without even realising they are on different quality