How much data does Spotify use? It depends on the sound quality you choose. The higher it is, the more data the streaming service will burn through. In any case, Spotify uses way less data than video streaming services (more on this later) and probably less than most people think.
Right now, the Spotify app offers no LTE/4G streaming straight from a Wear OS smartwatch to a pair of Bluetooth headphones. There's also no indication that this will arrive any time soon. Hi I have turned of 'Download over 2G/3G'. But when I'm connected to 4G (No wifi connection active) I can still browse and play music that is not downloaded to my device. But I can not download playlists to my device, only over wifi How come I can stream music when on 4G, I guess this is not by de.
The Spotify Android app lets you choose between five sound quality settings: Low (24kbps), Normal (96kbps), High (160kbps), Very high (320kbps), and Automatic (dependent on your network connection). You can access these options by heading to Settings > Music Quality on your Android phone.
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It can not only download tracks from Spotify, but also convert Spotify to MP3 or other common formats. With this solution, even if you are using a free Spotify account, you can easily download Spotify songs to Apple Watch for offline playback without iPhone. Hi, ever since I switched to boost mobile from Telstra, I couldn't play Spotify music anymore even with full reception. Please help me with this matter since this was pretty much 50% of the reason I wanted a prepaid sim with 4G. Thank you in advance! Kind regards, Sandro. Not so with Vodafone 4G, which gives you free access to Spotify Premium for 6 months with a 2GB 4G tariff or for a whole 2 years with a 4GB or 8GB 4G tariff. The mobile service gives you full access to Spotify’s music library from your phone and you can listen to songs over 3G or 4G, so even when you’re out and about you never need to be. Playlists are a great way to save collections of music, either for your own listening or to share. To create one: Tap Your Library. Tap CREATE.; Give your playlist a name.
To simplify things as much as possible, I’ve prepared an overview of how much data each setting uses per minute and hour as well as how long you’d have to stream music for to burn through 1GB of data. Keep in mind these numbers are approximate. Spotify can cache songs you’ve previously listened to, meaning they may not eat up the same amount of data the second time you play them.
Low (24kbps):
- Per minute: 0.18MB
- Per hour: 10.8MB
- How long until you reach 1GB: 92.5 hours
Normal (96kbps):
- Per minute: 0.72MB
- Per hour: 43.2MB
- How long until you reach 1GB: 23.1 hours
High (160kbps):
- Per minute: 1.2MB
- Per hour: 72MB
- How long until you reach 1GB: 13.8 hours
Very high (320kbps):
- Per minute: 2.4MB
- Per hour: 144MB
- How long until you reach 1GB: 6.9 hours
Now that you know how much data Spotify uses, let’s see how the numbers compare to video streaming. Watching HD content on Netflix uses up to 3GB of data per hour or as much as 7GB when the resolution gets bumped up to Ultra HD. Medium quality (SD) is a lot less data hungry, burning through 0.7GB per hour. Still, that’s almost five times as much as streaming music with the best sound quality available (320kbps).
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What about Spotify’s competitors? Google Play Music and Deezer both offer a maximum audio bitrate of 320kbps, which uses approximately 144MB of data per hour. So does Tidal, although it also has a Hi-Fi plan with a bitrate of 1.411kbps for improved sound quality. It’s a lot more data hungry, using around 635MB per hour. Apple Music, on the other hand, has a maximum bitrate of 256kbps, which translates to around 115MB of data per hour.
An important thing to keep in mind is that Spotify — as well as other streaming services mentioned in this post — lets you download songs to your phone, which means you don’t have to use any data at all when listening to music.
How many hours per week do you listen to music on Spotify or other streaming services? Let us know in the comments!
Benefits of Using Spotify Premium on Vodafone 4G
If you haven’t used Spotify before there’s never been a better time. It gives you instant and unlimited access to over 20 million songs, covering new and old across every genre imaginable. It’s a streaming service so you don’t need to worry about finding a room sized hard drive to fit all that music on and like any good player you can create playlists to keep track of your favourite songs.
That’s all available free of charge on a computer, but using it on mobile requires a Spotify Premium subscription, which would normally cost you £9.99 per month. Not so with Vodafone 4G, which gives you free access to Spotify Premium for 6 months with a 2GB 4G tariff or for a whole 2 years with a 4GB or 8GB 4G tariff.
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The mobile service gives you full access to Spotify’s music library from your phone and you can listen to songs over 3G or 4G, so even when you’re out and about you never need to be away from your music. That will of course eat into your data limit but Vodafone has thought of that too, as the network is generously giving customers a choice of 2, 4 or 8GB of data each month, along with unlimited data for the first 3 months and an extra 4GB of data for customers who sign up before 31st October.
All that data will go a long way towards freeing your music collection. Vodafone claims that with just a 2GB allowance you’d be able to listen to Daft Punk’s ‘Get Lucky’ 853 times, while a 4GB allowance would let you stream it 1,705 times and an 8GB allowance would let you hear it 3,410 times, which is probably almost as many times as you’d hear it if you spent the day listening to the radio.
Of course this is 4G we’re talking about, so it’s fast too. While a 3G connection of 3-6 Mbps would have to spend up to 5 seconds buffering each song, Vodafone’s 4G connection (which in early RootMetrics tests averaged download speeds of 20.8 Mbps in London), would spend well below 1 second buffering each song. It would be almost imperceptible in other words, making long playlists seem continuous and seamless.
If you ever do run short of data or find yourself without a 4G connection you can always still use the mobile Spotify app on Wi-Fi and you can even download songs to listen to later, ensuring that you never have to be without your music.
With extra features such as curated playlists, apps which add additional functionality to the service when used on a computer and the ability to share songs and playlists with friends, Spotify really has thought of everything.
All in all a Spotify Premium subscription with Vodafone 4G is not only great value for money but a perfect partnership, giving you not only the music but the tools needed to enjoy it wherever and whenever.
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