Audio settings: What does this mean?īasically, Spotify data usage is related to the level of audio quality you have chosen. The amount of data used changes, however, with the level of audio you choose to listen to your music. If our maths is right, that means it would cost you 38MB in data to listen to Travis Scott’s 58-minute Astroworld or 31.5MB to listen to Ariana Grande’s 47.25-minute Sweetener. To put it simply, on average and with Spotify’s default audio settings, you can expect to use 2MB+ of data per every 3-minute song. The amount of data that you use depends on numerous different facts – let’s have a look: How much data is used for one song on Spotify? But how much data are you using?Īs great as all this sounds, there is one catch – Spotify needs your data in order to operate. Basically, it’s all a bit too good to be true – simple, and almost every song you could want to listen to is at your fingertips. 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.
Launched in 2008, the service provides users with easy, free (with ads) access to an impressive collection of more than 30 million songs. Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or just really like CDs), you would’ve heard of the Swedish-born music streaming platform that is Spotify. But it’s certainly not a free service – not least because of the cost of data required to stream, which we’ll explain here. Now we find ourselves saying goodbye to our hardcopies and entering into a whole new world of music – run by platforms like Spotify. 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. When the Buggles said that ‘video killed the radio star’, they weren’t joking – except now music streaming services are the top dog and have killed literally everything else.
0 kommentar(er)
