Online/Offline

[BM]

Hi, I´d love to have Spotify on my iPhone running online whilst WLAN connected but offline (to avoid streaming costs) whilst connected via 3G. Is this possible? I only got aware of the option to switch to OFFLINE manually.

Thanks for your help.

Best

[jvanderb · Accepted solution]

Hi, and welcome to the Community!

There is partially a way to do that now, but not entirely.  The best way to ensure your phone is not using any data is to make some playlists, and mark them as available offline.  There is an option to disable syncing over 2G/3G, but that only refers to syncronizing offline playlists and not to streaming.  Here is a screen shot of that option in the preferences.  Mine is set to "ON" right now.

Hopefully that will help you out!

[BM · Accepted solution]

Thanks jvanderb,

to avoid any streaming I also can turn Spotify into the Offline mode in the setting section, right? Unfortunately I have to switch it back to Online manually when entering my WLAN at home. Don´t you think this is something Spotify should work to improve on?

Best

[NorthBuddy]

Hi,

I've a similar request and some adds.

It should be possible to

1. Prevent streaming in 2G/3G
   
   
2. Set the sound quality for 2G/3G streaming different to WLAN streaming
   Currently, you can set it only for streaming or download, but streaming in 2G/3G is important for non flat rates
   
   
3. If a song is played from a downloaded playlist, it should not be streamed
   I was streaming on the PC and parallel started a song on mobile from a downloaded playlist (premium). immediately the PC stopped! I had to switch to offline mode on the iphone. Doing so, I was able to play the downloaded song and stream on PC in parallel.
   It makes no sense to stream a song which is on the mobile device. This also wastes data for non flatrate users

regs

  Northbuddy

[Peter__]

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@NorthBuddy wrote:

Hi,

I've a similar request and some adds.

It should be possible to

1. Prevent streaming in 2G/3G
   
   
2. Set the sound quality for 2G/3G streaming different to WLAN streaming
   Currently, you can set it only for streaming or download, but streaming in 2G/3G is important for non flat rates
   
   
3. If a song is played from a downloaded playlist, it should not be streamed
   I was streaming on the PC and parallel started a song on mobile from a downloaded playlist (premium). immediately the PC stopped! I had to switch to offline mode on the iphone. Doing so, I was able to play the downloaded song and stream on PC in parallel.
   It makes no sense to stream a song which is on the mobile device. This also wastes data for non flatrate users

regs

  Northbuddy

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Hey! Welcome to the community 🙂 

Several of these have already been suggested over on the Ideas Exchange so if I was you, I would head over there, have a quick search and add your kudos and comments.

Peter