Spotify is the world’s leading music streaming platform thanks to its 356 million users worldwide. Of this total, 158 million are premium users, that is, they pay some type of subscription to avoid listening to advertising and obtain other benefits.
Because the Swedish company already has more than 5 subscribers to Apple Music and 7 to Amazon Music, it is difficult not to use (or know someone who does not use) Spotify to listen to music. However, if you want to improve your experience on the platform, we recommend deactivating or activating some settings in the application depending on the situation.
The option to normalize the volume is an option that can be activated by any user who does not want those jumps between songs (especially with older ones) where one is heard louder than another, which automatically forces the volume to be modified from the headphones or the cell phone.
However, for those who want to listen to music in the best possible quality, this should be one of the characteristics that they should never activate, since the volume of the tracks are part of the production and work that both the musicians and the producers. they choose for a particular reason.
The option to remove the volume setting equally on all songs is available from Settings> Playback> Enable audio normalization.
Choose the best possible quality for streaming and downloading
Spotify allows you to play music at 320 Kbps (less on iOS) in what the company calls “Very High Quality”, however, although it is far from CD quality and true lossless audio, it is a way to better enjoy the tracks. music both streaming and downloading.
The default option is normal quality, which allows a bitrate of 96 kbps, although it is recommended that for music playback in wireless headphones on an iPhone or phones with AAC is to choose “High quality” that goes up to 160 kbps. Although if you select “Very high quality” on an iPhone, it does not reach 320 kbps, but the cap is 256 kbps.
In the end, the difference in acoustic quality between the two settings is very difficult to notice.
To change the quality of the music you must go to the Settings> Audio quality> WiFi playback> Very high.
Crossfade
Crossfade is one of the best features Spotify has, but only when used at the right time.
This function takes care of mixing the end and the beginning of the next song so that there is never a break in the music. The crossfade is ideal at a party where you want to create a bit of this DJ effect, or you could even occupy it while exercising with an electronic music playlist, but for the rest of the musical genres it is not recommended to have it running.
Spotify normally has the crossfade feature disabled, but you can go to the Settings> Playback> Crossfade to activate it and choose the seconds to mix between the end of one song and the beginning of another.
Audio mono
Like crossfade, mono audio is a function that can be of great help in very specific situations, but if it is activated it can ruin your listening experience.
Normally, experts recommend activating mono audio for users who have hearing problems in one of the two ears, since what this function does is that it reproduces exactly the same sounds in the left and right earphones.
Another case where it is advisable to activate mono audio is when you only listen to music with one earphone, either because you share the second one with a friend to listen to music, or because it does not work, because in this way your experience will be better than having the stereo function. which gives each headphone part of the song mix.
To activate or deactivate mono audio is in Settings> Playback> Mono audio.
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