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Spotify has a range of audio quality options to suit your device, plan, and preferences.
Music quality
Equalify Pro is a full equalizer plug-in for Spotify, though you’ll have to pay a few bucks to get your hands on it. The plug-in only works on the Spotify client for Windows at the moment. Hi, In my Spotify on my Samsung mobile-phone there is an equalizer. Is there the same option for the Spotify on PC (using WIN 8.1)? I can't find any?
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Web player | AAC 128kbit/s | AAC 256kbit/s |
Desktop, mobile, and tablet | Automatic: Dependent on your network connection Low: Equivalent to approximately 24kbit/s Normal: Equivalent to approximately 96kbit/s High: Equivalent to approximately 160kbit/s | Automatic: Dependent on your network connection Low: Equivalent to approximately 24kbit/s Normal: Equivalent to approximately 96kbit/s High: Equivalent to approximately 160kbit/s Very high: Equivalent to approximately 320kbit/s |
Change music quality
Turn music quality up to hear the finer details or turn it down to save data.
Note: You can’t change audio settings when using Spotify Connect to play on another device.
You can have different settings for listening online (streaming quality) or offline (download quality).
![Equalizer Equalizer](/uploads/1/3/4/0/134071729/435371259.png)
Higher streaming quality uses more data, and higher download quality uses more space.
- Tap Home .
- Tap Settings .
- Under Music Quality, select your preferred settings.
- Click in the top-right corner and select Settings.
- Under Music Quality, select your preferred settings
You can’t adjust music quality on the web player. Download the app to get more features.
Podcast quality
Podcast quality is equivalent to approximately 96kbit/s on all devices except the web player where it’s 128kbit/s.
On mobile/tablet, if you change the music quality to low, the podcast quality will also lower to approximately 24kbit/s.
Frequently asked questions:
If if you feel like your audio hardware (headphones, speaker) does not have enough Bass (low frequency) punch, or vice versa, you can adjust that using eqMac.
Watch THIS VIDEO for a better explanation.
Watch THIS VIDEO for a better explanation.
Press the Download button on the home page.
Open the downloaded eqMac.dmg file (if you accidentally closed the window you can always reopen it by Finding it as a Drive in your Finder).
Drag the eqMac app into Applications directory.
Open eqMac.app from you Applications directory.
Open the downloaded eqMac.dmg file (if you accidentally closed the window you can always reopen it by Finding it as a Drive in your Finder).
Drag the eqMac app into Applications directory.
Open eqMac.app from you Applications directory.
The way eqMac works it needs to install an Audio Driver, to do that it needs your system password.
The app never sees your password as it uses secure Apple API to perform the install.
The app never sees your password as it uses secure Apple API to perform the install.
macOS does not have direct way to access the System Audio stream, so we use the eqMac Audio driver to divert the system audio to the drivers input stream.
Then eqMac captures that input audio stream, processses it and sends it directly to the output device.
Then eqMac captures that input audio stream, processses it and sends it directly to the output device.
Sometimes there are synching issues, try to switch away from eqMac audio device to your preferred output device and eqMac should restart the audio pipeline.
Alternatively, you can try to restart eqMac, that should help as well
Alternatively, you can try to restart eqMac, that should help as well
The proper way to uninstall eqMac is to click the 'Uninstall' button in eqMac Settings section.
That will run a script to uninstall the app and the driver properly.
If for whatever reason you cannot run eqMac, to uninstall the driver you can run this command in Terminal:
That will run a script to uninstall the app and the driver properly.
If for whatever reason you cannot run eqMac, to uninstall the driver you can run this command in Terminal:
![App App](/uploads/1/3/4/0/134071729/820818906.png)
Spotify Equalizer Desktop
sudo rm -rf /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/eqMac.driver/ && sudo launchctl kickstart -k system/com.apple.audio.coreaudiod &>/dev/null