5 tricks to get more out of the Spotify app
Table of contents:
- 1. Download an album to your phone
- 2. Unlimited music according to your tastes
- 3. Free up space
- 4. Search Shortcuts
- 5. Change the audio quality
Spotify is one of the most used applications to listen to music in streaming. Its extensive catalog and its interface make it an essential on our device to enjoy our favorite songs. The app can be listened to for free with some limitations,so if you get a lot out of it, it's best to subscribe to the premium model paying 10 euros per month.
Browsing Spotify is very simple, although the app has different functions and options to make the most of it. If you are interested in the subject, do not stop reading. We reveal 5 tricks to make the most of the service.
1. Download an album to your phone
Spotify gives you the ability to download playlists or entire albums to your mobile device to listen to whenever you want offline. This is perfect if you don't want to spend data and you don't have a WiFi nearby. To download a disc on your mobile, you just have to enter it and click Download. In this way, it will remain available to you in the Your Library section (within of albums). Saved songs will have a green arrow icon pointing down.
2. Unlimited music according to your tastes
One of the great advantages of Spotify is that you don't have to select the music yourself all the time, or limit yourself to the default or recommended Playlists by the service.You can choose a song and listen to similar music at the click of a button. To do this, when you are listening to a song, click on the button with the three ellipses and scroll down until you come across the option “Go to the radio”. Yes When you press it, you will see how the next random songs are very related to the chosen group or soloist.
3. Free up space
As you listen, Spotify will increase the cache storage on your device, something that is not convenient for you if you want to save space on your device. Don't worry, because Spotify allows you to clear the cache without affecting your saved downloads. Enter Configuration or Settings and go to the Storage section. Then click Clear Cache.
4. Search Shortcuts
A trick that may come in handy when you don't know what music to listen to or want to find something specific, is to use shortcuts. As in other services and programs, Spotify allows you to use shortcuts to narrow down your searches. Of course, it is necessary to put them in English. For example, it is possible to search for songs and albums by genre by entering the shortcut genre: Thus, when you type genre: rock, themes related to this type of music will appear. Other shortcuts are Year: to search for a specific year or album: to search within a disc. In the same way, it is possible to combine shortcuts so that the searches are much more effective. Example: Year:2002 genre: heavy.
5. Change the audio quality
If you are a Spotify premium user you can use a very interesting option, that of changing the sound quality of the songs. If you are not satisfied with little, enter the Settings section and go to the "Music quality" section. Spotify recommends automatic quality. This is because it values when you connect to a WiFi connection or are using the app with your data. Thus, it will adjust the quality to allow you to save megabytes in the event that make use of 4G.
Another possibility is to select a low quality, if you don't have many megabytes but you want to use Spotify,as well as a High or Very quality High. We only recommend these last two options if you usually always listen to the service with a WiFi connection.
