Just remember that non-music streaming data still counts against you. Most music streaming services include small amounts of non-music streaming data, like album artwork. The amount of data those non-music files consume varies by streaming partner and the device being used. There are a few steps you can take to reduce your music streaming data usage.
Spotify Premium offers users up to 10, songs for listening while away from WiFi. Gone are the days of lining up outside your local record store, or spending hours attempting to download songs from Limewire onto your iPod touch. Now we find ourselves saying goodbye to our hardcopies and entering into a whole new world of music — run by platforms like Spotify.
Launched in , the service provides users with easy, free with ads access to an impressive collection of more than 30 million songs. Spotify currently has millions of active users, with a good percentage of those paying subscribers as part of the premium service — which eliminates advertising and allows users to download songs to be played later on without internet. As great as all this sounds, there is one catch — Spotify needs your data in order to operate.
The amount of data used changes, however, with the level of audio you choose to listen to your music. Basically, Spotify data usage is related to the level of audio quality you have chosen. Spotify audio settings are as followed, as stated on the Spotify application. Then, according to NBN Co, this is how audio settings translate into how much data you will be using, per 3-minute song, and then per hour.
Obviously, you can try and reduce your data usage by listening to your music at a lower quality, but hey — who wants that. This is simple, but often overlooked.
This way you can squeeze out as many songs as you can before turning off your data at the end of the month in order to not go over in your data usage. This requires you to purchase a premium account — but the payoff might be worth it in the end. This makes it critical that the listener has a data plan that can cover their needs. There are still some cell phone plans on the market that provide a mere MB of data each month, which would only be enough for three hours of music.
Now, there are different quality settings on Spotify, and the amount of data used depends on the quality of the song. A listener can see what their Spotify music quality is set at by tapping Your Library, then Settings, and then Music Quality. There is normal quality, which streams songs at about 96 kilobits per second kbps. High quality streams at about kbps and extreme quality streams at about kbps. Automatic quality is always at least 96 kbps. Normal quality is when a 3-minute song will use 2 MB of data.
On high quality, it will use 3. However, these numbers decrease when playing songs the user has already listened to before, because Spotify caches those songs.
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