Spotify’s Wrapped experience is one of the best parts of being a Spotify subscriber. The year-end experience breaks down your listening stats and highlights the best highlights. Spotify hasn’t announced exactly when we can expect to see the launch of this year’s experience, but it’s typically sometime in late November or early December. If you’re like me and are eagerly awaiting the release, you can take your time and play around with Spotify’s advanced audio settings to find your top hits (or the ones you think might fit your top 5 songs ) to make it sound even better.

Spotify’s advanced audio settings let you tailor your music to your surroundings. For example, if you need to study in a library (or other quiet place), you can lower the background volume to avoid unnecessary distractions. Or if you’re working out and sweating it out at the gym to your favorite playlist, Spotify’s genre equalizer can get you ready for the next few reps. When you’re done, you can easily disable these settings.

Finding and using Spotify’s audio quality settings is easy and opens up a world of musical possibilities. Here are all the important Spotify audio settings you should know.

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Adjust your basic volume to your environment

Volume is pretty easy to figure out, but did you know that Spotify allows Premium users to adjust the app’s base volume to suit their environment? You can choose Quiet, Normal or Loudand each has its own advantage.

Quiet This makes songs slightly quieter and sounds clearer, making it a good choice when relaxing at home. Normal lets songs play at medium basic volume and the sound is less clear than Quiet. This is a good choice for most people and situations. Loud is – you guessed it – louder, but you might lose some audio quality due to the volume. This option is good if you are at the gym or another similarly noisy environment.

Here’s how to adjust your iPhone’s default volume:

1. Open the Spotify app and tap your profile picture in the top left.
2. Tap the gear icon to open the Settings and privacy Menu.
3. Knock reproduction.
4. Under Volume levelthere are three options: Loud, Normal And Quiet. Choose the option that works best for you and Spotify will adjust the sound accordingly.

If you use the Spotify app on a Mac, you can adjust the base volume as follows:

1. Open Spotify.
2. Click on your profile picture and select it Settings.
3. Under Audio qualityyou should see that Volume level.
4. Click on the drop-down bar to the right of it Volume level.
5. From here you see the same thing Loud, Normal And Quiet Options.

To adjust the base volume when using the Spotify app on an Android device:

1. Open Spotify.
2. Tap the gear icon to access it Settings.
3. Under reproduction You should see this Volume level.
4. Next to Volume level You should see this Loud, Normal And Quiet Options. Select the one you want.

Finally, here’s how to adjust the basic volume in Spotify on a Windows computer:

1. Open Spotify.
2. Click on your account name in the top right corner.
3. Click Settings.
4. Under Audio qualityyou should see that Volume level. Click on the drop-down bar on the right.
5. Choose Loud, Normal or Quiet.

For more control, use the Spotify equalizer

If you prefer to control how your bass and treble comes across in each song, you can customize the in-app equalizer. Adjusting your bass affects lower frequency sounds, making your music sound deeper with more bass or flatter with less bass. The treble affects the higher sound frequencies, making your music sound brighter and clearer when the treble is higher, or duller and somewhat muddy when the treble is lower.

How to access the equalizer on your iPhone:

1. Open the Spotify app and tap your profile picture in the top left.
2. Tap the gear icon to open the Settings and privacy Menu.
3. Knock reproduction.
4. Scroll down and tap Equalizer.
5. Read below to find out how to find the perfect fit.

To access the equalizer on your Android device:

1. Open Spotify.
2. Tap the gear icon to access it Settings.
3. Under audio quality, knock Equalizer.

You can also access the equalizer on your desktop. Here’s how:

1. Open Spotify and click on your profile picture.
2. Click Settings.
3. Under reproductionclick on the switch next to Equalizer.

How to find the right equalizer setting

Both iPhones and Android devices have a manual equalizer slider and a handful of pre-built genre-based equalizers.

You should see the manual equalizer slider, which looks like a line graph with six points. When you first enter this page, the equalizer should be flat.

Each point in the graphic can be adjusted for more or less sound. The leftmost bar represents your bass, the rightmost bar controls your treble, and the middle bar controls – you guessed it – your midrange. You can customize the bars as you wish.

You can also find genre-based equalizers on this page. You can choose what genre you listen to and the app will automatically adjust the sliders to optimize for that style of music. Once you choose one, you can further adjust the sliders for the perfect listening experience.

If you want to reset the equalizer, there is a genre based equalizer called Apartment. This will reset the equalizer to its default setting.

While you can access the equalizer on the iOS, Android, and desktop versions of Spotify, you cannot access the equalizer on the Mac version of Spotify. But you can Look for an equalizer application to support you on your way to the best sound.

Adjust the quality of your music for clearer sound

You can also adjust the audio quality of your music. This is handy if you use mobile data and want to save money on your phone bill, as reducing audio quality takes up less bandwidth and uses less data. As you improve the quality of your music, you should hear the finer details of the music and get a clearer listening experience.

To change audio quality on mobile and tablet:

1. Open the Spotify app.
2. Tap your profile picture to access it Settings.
3. Knock Audio quality.
4. Under WiFi streaming And Cellular streamingyou can choose Automatically, Low, Normal or High. The Automatically This option adjusts the audio quality based on your signal strength. If you are a paid subscriber, you will see a fifth option below both WiFi streaming And Cellular streaming called Very high.

To change the audio quality on your desktop:

1. Open Spotify.
2. Click on your profile picture to access it Settings.
3. Under audio quality, Click the drop-down menu next to Streaming quality.
4. Choose between Low, Normal, High or Automatically Options, and paying subscribers have those too Very high Option.

You can also adjust the audio quality of your music. This is handy if you use mobile data and don’t want to run up your phone bill. Lowering the audio quality means less data is used.

For more information on Spotify, check out our full review and how Spotify compares to Apple Music.