- Plan Free Country United States Device Microsoft Xbox One, Samsung Galaxy J7 Android Operating System Android OS 7.1.1 My Question or Issue I can't change the volume from my Xbox one, even while listening to music on it. I can only change the volume from my phone, and I can't mute it either.
- The default volume level of the Spotify app (when listening and playing games) is so loud I can barely hear any in game sounds even when I have them turned all the way up. When I try to adjust the volume via my iPhone Spotify app, it shows an Xbox volume image and the sound going up or down but it doesn't affect the actual volume of the music.
When you have the Spotify app open on your Xbox, minimized it.Then press the Xbox Guide button and select the Spotify shortcut app.You will be given a slider option for volume and the ability to change the tracks. Online streaming services are turning down loud songs. We all hate sudden changes in loudness - they're the #1 source of user complaints. To avoid this and save us from being 'blasted' unexpectedly, online streaming services measure loudness, and turn down music recorded at higher levels. On Android/iOS, pull up Spotify’s settings (Your Library Gear Icon) and tap on “Playback.” Look for the “Enable Audio Normalization” setting. On Windows/Mac, click the drop-down arrow next to.
Spotify has a range of audio quality options to suit your device, plan, and preferences.
Music quality
Spotify free | Spotify Premium | |
Web player | AAC 128kbit/s | AAC 256kbit/s |
Desktop, mobile, and tablet | Automatic: Dependent on your network connection Low: Equivalent to approximately 24kbit/s Normal: Equivalent to approximately 96kbit/s High: Equivalent to approximately 160kbit/s | Automatic: Dependent on your network connection Low: Equivalent to approximately 24kbit/s Normal: Equivalent to approximately 96kbit/s High: Equivalent to approximately 160kbit/s Very high: Equivalent to approximately 320kbit/s |
Change music quality
Turn music quality up to hear the finer details or turn it down to save data.
Note: You can’t change audio settings when using Spotify Connect to play on another device.
You can have different settings for listening online (streaming quality) or offline (download quality).
Higher streaming quality uses more data, and higher download quality uses more space.
- Tap Home .
- Tap Settings .
- Under Music Quality, select your preferred settings.
- Click in the top-right corner and select Settings.
- Under Music Quality, select your preferred settings
You can’t adjust music quality on the web player. Download the app to get more features.
Podcast quality
Podcast quality is equivalent to approximately 96kbit/s on all devices except the web player where it’s 128kbit/s.
On mobile/tablet, if you change the music quality to low, the podcast quality will also lower to approximately 24kbit/s.
One area where Windows has been leaps and bounds ahead of the Mac for years, if not decades, is volume control. Quite simply, sometimes you need to control volume on a finer level than OS X allows. Windows lets you adjust output volume for each individual application, but this isn’t possible natively on a Mac.
So we have to turn to third-party apps to grant us this ability. Both apps on this list offer the feature of adjusting volume by app. However, the apps each bring something different to the table, so explore the options and decide for yourself which is best.
Volume Mixer
Volume Mixer is the first Mac app on the list and it allows you to control system volume by application. The app sits in your menu bar so you can call it up as needed. Each app, much like on Windows, is accompanied by its own volume slider. Adjust it as you’d like, mute individual apps entirely or click Refresh to bring an app on par with the master volume.
Over in the Preferences, you can choose your default output source or just quickly change sources on the fly. You can also set highly convenient keyboard shortcuts for specific actions revolving around volume control. These include increasing the volume of an active app, decreasing the volume of an active app, toggling mute for an active app, increasing/decreasing/muting background sound and increasing/decreasing/muting notifications. If you want full control over your output audio, it doesn’t get much better than this.
Volume Mixer comes with a free seven day trial after which it’s $9.99 for two copies or $14.99 for lifetime updates. It’s fairly steep pricing, but if you need the features, it works great.
Background Music
Is The Spotify App Free
Background Music is a simpler app that does much of the same thing as Volume Mixer. From your menu bar, you can adjust volume for individual applications. But in Background Music, the volume sliders aren’t relative to your master volume. Each slider by default is set to the middle and doesn’t change when you raise or lower your volume. That means that technically, if you have your volume all the way up, you could still give some apps a slight boost.
It also has a phenomenal feature that auto-pauses your music when another source of audio starts playing, then automatically continues playback when the other audio stops. It’s much like how music stops and resumes when you get a phone call on your iPhone. The auto-pause feature supports iTunes, Spotify, VOX and VLC.
Background Music is free, unlike Volume Mixer, but since the developer hasn’t officially published it anywhere, it must be installed from GitHub.
Note: The guide to installing Background Music is right on the GitHub page. If you have Xcode installed, just copy and paste the provided prompt into Terminal.
To manually install, download the ZIP file and unzip it. In Terminal, type
cd
followed by the path to where you unzipped the folder. Then install by typing /bin/bash build_and_install.sh
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