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How to configure Spotify to consume less data

Streaming services have become the main attraction for many users to listen to music or watch their favorite series anywhere and at any time. With a data connection, we can listen to any song on Spotify Premium Free and the same with a Netflix or HBO subscription. The problem is that these services generally consume a very high amount of data and can quickly derail our data plans. Today we will tell you how to configure Spotify so that it consumes the least possible data when you are listening to music without a Wi-Fi network.

We already told you in its day how much Spotify consumed on average for each minute and song, something that has not changed much since then. Whether or not you have a premium account, you can access the application settings and activate or deactivate certain parameters that will help you save data daily. Some options will be almost priceless, but others can give you double or triple the time with the same data.

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Enable music playback in normal quality

You may not know it, but Spotify doesn't have just one playback quality. If you enter the application settings and scroll a little, you will see how you have an option that tells you about the quality of the playback. This is the most important trick to save data with Spotify since by default it will appear in automatic. This means that the application will reproduce one quality or another depending on your data connection.

Knowing that in Spain almost all major cities have 4G + networks, in some cases, Spotify can select extreme quality as the ideal one to listen to your songs. This quality will make you spend up to 4 times more data than normal quality, something that you are not willing to allow. All you have to do is go to this section of the settings and select the normal quality. The quality will be the lowest of all, but this does not mean that it is bad. For most users, it is more than enough quality to listen to music, so you can save some very valuable data.

Waze integration and lyrics don't matter too much, remove them

In these settings, there are a couple of sections that can also help you save some data every day. It's about Waze integration and automatic lyrics search. These two options use the data to function and although they are few, you can save them simply by deactivating these two functions from the settings.

In the case of Waze, it doesn't matter too much if you don't have the application installed, but the lyrics search does use data every time a new song is played on the terminal. We do not have the exact data, but anything that is saving on unnecessary things is welcome.

We cannot assure you that these settings will work miracles in your data consumption, but the first option may give you much more content with the same amount of data. Try these settings and let us know what you think!

  • Alva Dua
  • Jun 1 2021