Enhanced playlists feature affect on downloaded playlists mobile data (Android)

[pbike908]

Plan

Premium

Country USA

Device

Galaxy S8

Operating System

Android 9

My Question or Issue

If I use the Enhanced Playlist feature on a downloaded playlist, are my downloaded songs played from the device or are they streamed?  Example: I have a downloaded playlist with 60 songs.  I hit the enhance button.  Spotify recommends 20 additional songs.  When I play the playlist are my existing 60 songs played from the device, or are they streamed meaning I will use my mobile plans data allotment?  I understand that the 20 additional "enhanced" songs are streamed from the cloud.

[Amayy]

Hey! If you have saved anything offline and you want it to play it from that and not stream it, you have to turn on the dedicated offline mode to confirm that it works the way you want it to. The offline mode works this way. Let us know if there is anything else we can help you with.

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[pbike908]

If you go offline or airplane mode, enhanced doesn't work which makes sense because the enhanced songs aren't downloaded.

My question is when I use enhanced on a downloaded playlist, do the songs already downloaded on my device play from the device or are my existing downloaded songs streamed? My guess is they are streamed.

Do you work for spotify? My guess is someone from spotify should know?

[Alex]

Hey @pbike908,

Thanks for the post.

If you are connected to the internet and Offline mode is not switched ON, Spotify will always stream the content, even when you have some songs downloaded. This is so that you get the highest quality of the track and the latest version of the playlist you're listening to.

Hope this clears things up 🙂

[hells]

Hey @Alex

That doesn't make much sense to me at all. What if you have downloaded tracks set to high quality and streamed ones set to normal or low to save data? You're saying in this case the "higher" quality streamed version will indeed be the lower quality one?

Not great UX in my opinion. Spotify *should* work in this way if the playlist is marked to be downloaded:
- Play tracks that are available locally, locally.

- Stream tracks that are new (EX: Enhanced tracks)
- Download those enhanced tracks once added to the playlist (Currently all download controls on the playlist disappear when you enable Enhance)

Currently it does none of those things according to your post? Essentially this means if I want to use the enhance playlist feature, I need to disable it before I go driving every single time otherwise my data usage will skyrocket despite the fact I've already had the playlist as marked to download.

This should be re-evaluated. Currently I love the enhance feature, but losing all the rest of this is a non-starter for anybody not on an unlimited data plan.

Brandon

[Mihail]

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