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Spotify Mobile gets 320kbps songs on iOS

If you’ve got a Premium Spotify account, you can now ditch the streaming quality blues for some decent quality MP3 bitrates

Spotify’s just released an update for iOS devices that lets Premium subscribers listen to their tracks at an acceptable 320kbps – what Spotify calls “very high quality”. It’s going to be a clear improvement from the 160kbps previous maximum bitrate of Spotify’s streamed Ogg Vorbis files. That’ll give those of us who’ve splurged a bit on a decent set of cans the chance to get our money’s worth.

The v0.4.23 Spotify Mobile update is only for Apple devices for now, but we’d expect other platforms to follow shortly. If you do want to stream some better quality audio to your iOS device, all you need to do is select the Extreme option shown in the photo above. Then be prepared to use your bandwidth to the extreme too – Wi-Fi is recommended for those without unlimited data.

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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