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: The Spotify app prioritizes downloads ahead of streaming. If you have songs that were previously downloaded with a lower quality setting than Lossless, then those lower quality downloads will play even if you are currently connected to WiFi and have Streaming quality set to Lossless.

Downloaded songs will be played in the quality that they were originally downloaded in, even if you are currently streaming on a WiFi connection. If you want your downloaded songs (and Offline Backup) to play in Lossless quality, you will need to delete them first and then re-download them. If you change the streaming quality to a lower setting, song files that were already cached in a higher quality will be preferred during playback until the cache is updated or cleared.

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

➜ Spotify Support Article: Spotify Connect

[stupidmaninthewindow]

Got lossless on my old abandoned account but not this one. 😭

[yhajtko]

Not bad so far but @Spotify you need to add a volume control option for users to be able to select whether to use the desktop apps volume or disable it and leave it up to hardware volume control (similar to what qobuz, tidal, deezer etc) offer.

[xandercornelius]

I JUST got Lossless (in Norway), and it's quite USELESS for a lot of us the way it is set up now. Why?

I have a LOT of long playlists downloaded in lower quality to not take up space when I travel (which I do A LOT - to and from work is over 3 hours a day). I listen to music every minute of every day. Now, no matter where I am and the speakers/headphones I have connected Spotify will play the music in the downloaded quality BEFORE streaming quality - meaning it will still play the lower quality even if I am on a good WIFI and able to play Losseless. I CANNOT download my playlist in Lossless as that will take up too much space on my devices. This means I'm not able to actually enjoy Lossless for the music I play all the time and that I have in my playlists. For context, ONE of my playlist consists of 2500+ songs...........

This is incredibly frustrating and I hope Spotify will change this so that you can select streaming quality over downloaded quality when using a wifi connection.

[starhamster]

I don't understand why Lossless would prioritize the downloaded quality?? Let me stream Lossless at home and my downloads in lower quality! My phone is not a computer, I dont have that much space!

[LawLee]

 I'm back. Tried Qobuz, Tidal Apple Music Amazon Prime and Deezer. Now Spotify has lossless coupled with Spotify Connect there is just nothing like it. I can control every device in my house beautifully. Kudos!

[ByTheWay]

My Echo Studio is configured to Play lossless ... But it Always only Play very high!? Why? Connection is Not the problem... And when will be wifi speaker from jbl able to Play lossless? 

[linolad]

Hi All,

Early days as yet, but I have now been able to use Spotify lossless for about a week here in Australia, (deleted the app and reinstalled), and the early results are promising, but I probably have a different listening viewpoint than some others on this chat.

Currently I am using Spotify Connect for my Bluesound Vault and also on a Wiim Amp, noting that I was required to setup lossless independently on each device.

Historically I go in and out of streaming services including Spotify, Tidal, Qobuz, Apple music and Amazon Unlimited and my thoughts are as follows in the context that most of my listening still comes from the files on my Vault hard drive.

Spotify – Just okay sound at its previous “very high setting” and I would have described it as warm, lacking in detail, with a rolled off top end and fullish bass. To me theses are all sins of omission which is usually more palatable than sins of commission as Spotify previously has never sounded harsh or brittle in use, (to me anyway).

In my opinion it has the best and most intuitive interface of any streaming service and with the flexible setup that requires/allows you to set up different scenarios for different levels of streaming quality has what I want, which is now very good to excellent  sound  (I haven’t quite listened enough as yet) and I have no issue with just seeing “lossless” as the quality. You can go in of course to see how lossless it is, but to date I have only found one of my library albums in 24bit and that’s Eric Clapton’s Meanwhile.

Because my family, including grandchildren, all use Spotify it is helpful and socially useful to do the same, only now I can do it with less compromise. I am happy therefore to use it as my go to in and out of the streaming world from now on.   

[aaleecanada]

Better late than never ... we just got it in Canada.  A significant improvement in sound quality, especially on better equipment.  

[etmame]

• Allow lossless playback to Chromecast Audio device! 

[Max_Kosh]

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xandercornelius

Newbie

3 days ago

I JUST got Lossless (in Norway), and it's quite USELESS for a lot of us the way it is set up now. Why?

I have a LOT of long playlists downloaded in lower quality to not take up space when I travel (which I do A LOT - to and from work is over 3 hours a day). I listen to music every minute of every day. Now, no matter where I am and the speakers/headphones I have connected Spotify will play the music in the downloaded quality BEFORE streaming quality - meaning it will still play the lower quality even if I am on a good WIFI and able to play Losseless. I CANNOT download my playlist in Lossless as that will take up too much space on my devices. This means I'm not able to actually enjoy Lossless for the music I play all the time and that I have in my playlists. For context, ONE of my playlist consists of 2500+ songs...........

This is incredibly frustrating and I hope Spotify will change this so that you can select streaming quality over downloaded quality when using a wifi connection.

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That's why I haven't compiled music in such large quantities into a single playlist for a long time. A maximum of 200 in one playlist.
Otherwise, it's very difficult to listen to it and navigate within it by music.

[Doudar]

I dont get it how a respectful company been almost a month and they dont want to address the question many  people are asking!!

those markets that havent been listed on your thread for example Egypt, are they getting lossless or not?????

[marcoshalano]

Anyone got lossless in Brazil already?

[joseph_rey29]

Any updates on markets outside those 50 markets?

[Lamkers]

Hi, any chance for Amazon echo lossless? Echo dot works fine, but with echo stil unavailable 😕

[Max_Kosh]

Is the full list of countries that will receive lossless known?

[G_Halleck]

This is a poor implementation as it doesn't allow lossless streaming on Chromecast Audio (CCA) - a still popular and very capable device. Lossless works well on Tidal via CCA so the capability is there. Please add your vote to an idea that has been posted requesting this. 

[hyp3rs0mni4tic]

@rwylm_lss @douglasalves @marcoshalano

Can we Brazilians expect lossless still for 2025?

It’s quite outrageous how Spotify totally left South America out of the October list.
I’ve been a Premium user for more than 10 years, consistently supporting the company. But my 3-month gift of Apple Music has just ended, and I felt the need to renovate it. There’s just no comparison when it comes to audio quality.

I’m literally paying less for AM (included in my Apple One subscription), so if we don’t get lossless this year in Brazil, I’m saying goodbye to Spotify and sticking with AM. 

[poilover]

Still waiting for my hardware provider in the UK to update the firmware to enable lossless on Spotify Connect.

[chartz2]

Hi,

I have been enjoying lossless for a fortnight.

A pity my main streaming device, a Chromecast audio, doesn’t support it (yet). 
However I can use an old Yamaha CD player with USB digital in and this allows lossless on the hi-fi, by using the iPhone.

Regards

[Stierna]

Spotify Connect API = HiFi Rose ,when?