Stop me if you've heard this one before: over a half-decade of rumors, infrequent teases and affirmations that something is on the way, only for fans to impatiently bide their time and the thing to eventually arrive with very little advance warning. No, I'm not talking about Hollow Knight: Silksong this time. Spotify is finally rolling out a lossless option that offers higher-quality music streaming.
Best of all, the company is offering it to Premium members at no extra charge. You'll get a notification once it's enabled on your account. Starting today, Spotify is rolling out lossless audio in the US, UK, Australia, Austria, Czechia, Denmark, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Portugal and its home territory of Sweden. In all, Spotify Premium users in more than 50 markets will gain access to lossless audio by the end of October.
The option is available on mobile, desktop and tablets, along with many Spotify Connect-compatible devices, including Sony, Bose, Samsung, and Sennheiser products. Spotify Lossless will make its way to Sonos and Amazon devices, as well as others, next month.
We’re rolling out our best sound quality, Lossless, to Premium users.
Find out more: https://t.co/mG78GMA8R6 pic.twitter.com/P2VzcAsc71 — Spotify (@Spotify) September 10, 2025
Somewhat annoyingly, you'll have to enable Spotify Lossless manually, and you'll need to do that on each device on which you want to use it. To switch it on in the Spotify app, tap your profile icon in the top left, then go to Settings & Privacy > Media Quality. From there, you can choose to turn on lossless audio for Wi-Fi and cellular streaming, as well as your downloads. When it's on, you'll see a lossless indicator in the Now Playing view and the Connect Picker.
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Lossless streaming uses more data than other quality options, which is why Spotify is offering several settings for Wi-Fi, cellular and downloads so you (hopefully) don't bust through any data caps you might have. You'll be able to see how much data the various options — low, normal, high, very high and lossless quality — will use to help you figure out which way to go.
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