Try These Spotify Tips Before Listening to Taylor Swift’s Latest Album

Taylor Swift released her latest album, The Life of a Showgirl, on October 3, and if you’ve been listening to it on repeat on Spotify, there are a few settings you need to know to improve your listening experience.

Spotify’s advanced audio settings can help you personalize your listening experience. They are easy to find and use in your app and you don’t need to be a DJ or music producer to understand them.

Take for example the basic volume. If you listen to Spotify on your headphones or headphones while you study in the library, you can lower your base volume to limit distractions. Or, if you’re pumping iron in the gym, you can play around with your gender EQ to get ready for your next reps. When you’re done, you can easily reset your settings.

These advanced audio features give you access to a world of musical possibilities. Here are all the audio tools you need to know to become a Spotify expert.

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Adjust your baseline volume based on your environment

Volume is pretty easy to understand, but did you know that Spotify allows premium users to adjust the app’s base volume based on their surroundings? You can select Calm, Normal Or Strongand each has its own advantage.

Calm will make songs a little calmer and cleaner, making it a good choice if you’re relaxing at home. Normal plays songs at a medium base volume and the sound is less crisp than Calm. It’s a good choice for most people and situations. Strong is – you guessed it – louder, but you may lose some audio quality due to the volume. This option is great if you’re at the gym or in other equally noisy environments.

Here’s how to adjust the basic volume on your iPhone:

1. Open the Spotify app and tap your profile picture in the upper left corner.
2. Faucet Settings and privacy.
3. Faucet Reading.

Below Noise levelyou should see three options: Strong, Normal And Calm. Choose the option that suits you and Spotify will adjust the sound accordingly.

If you’re using the Spotify app on a Mac, here’s how to adjust the basic volume:

1. Open Spotify.
2. Click on your profile picture, then select Settings.
3. Below Audio qualityyou should see Noise level.
4. Click the drop-down bar to the right of Noise level.
5. From here you see the same thing Strong, Normal And Calm choice.

Here’s how to adjust the basic volume if you’re using the Spotify app on an Android device:

1. Open Spotify.
2. Tap the gear icon to access Settings.
3. Below Reading you should see Volume level.
4. Next to Volume level you should see the Strong, Normal And Calm choice. Choose the one you want.

Here’s how to adjust the basic volume in Spotify on a Windows computer:

1. Open Spotify.
2. Click your account name in the upper right corner.
3. Click Settings.
4. Below Audio qualityyou should see Noise level. Click the drop-down bar on the right.
5. Select Strong, Normal Or Calm.

Use Spotify Equalizer for More Control

If you prefer to be more concrete about how your bass and treble appear in each song, you can adjust the in-app EQ. Adjusting your bass affects low-frequency sounds, making your music deeper with increased bass or flatter with less bass. Treble affects the highest frequencies of sound, making your music brighter and crisper with increased treble or duller and a bit fuzzy with less treble.

Here’s how to access the equalizer on your iPhone:

1. Open the Spotify app and tap your profile picture in the upper left corner.
2. Faucet Settings and privacy.
3. Faucet Reading.
4. Scroll down and tap Equalizer.
5. Find out how to find the perfect solution below.

Here’s how to access the equalizer on your Android device:

1. Open Spotify.
2. Tap the gear icon to access Settings.
3. Below Audio quality, faucet Equalizer.

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

1. Open Spotify and click on your profile picture.
2. Click Settings.
3. Below Readingclick the button next to Equalizer.

How to find the right equalizer setting

iPhones and Android devices have a manual EQ slider and a handful of preset gender-based EQs.

You should see the manual EQ slider, which looks like a six-point line graph. When you first come to this page, the EQ should be flat.

Each point on the graph can be adjusted for more or less sound. The left-most bar represents your bass, the right-most bar controls your treble, and the middle bars control – you guessed it – your mids. You can modify the bars as you see fit.

There are also gender-based equalizers on this page. You can choose the genre you listen to and the app automatically adjusts the sliders to optimize for that style of music. After choosing one, you can further adjust the sliders for the perfect listening experience.

If you want to reset the EQ, there is a gender based EQ called Flat. This will reset the equalizer to its default value.

Although you can access the equalizer in the iOS, Android, and desktop versions of Spotify, you cannot access the equalizer in the Mac version of Spotify. But you can look for an equalizer app to help you in your quest for 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, because reducing audio quality consumes less bandwidth and uses less data. Increasing the quality of your music should allow you to hear the finer details of the music and give you a clearer listening experience.

Here’s how to change the audio quality on mobile and tablet:

1. Open the Spotify app.
2. Tap your profile picture to access Settings.
3. Faucet Media quality.
4. Below WiFi streaming And Cell broadcastyou can select Automatic, Weak, Normal Or High. THE Automatic The option adjusts the audio quality based on your signal strength. If you are a paying subscriber, you will see a fifth option under WiFi streaming And Cell broadcast called Very high.

Here’s how to change the audio quality on your desktop. Note that you can only do this from the Spotify desktop app. If you try to do this from a browser, Spotify will ask you to download the app.

1. Open Spotify.
2. Click on your profile picture in the upper right corner of your screen.
3. Click Settings.
4. Below Audio quality, click the drop-down menu next to Broadcast quality.
5. Choose between Weak, Normal, High Or Automatic options, and paid subscribers also have the option Very high option.

To learn more about Spotify, read our full review, what to know about lossless audio on the service, and how Spotify compares to Apple Music.