If you use regularly streaming platforms to play content sometimes we can reach reduce data from mobile data connection. Savings are important when reaching the plan offered by our operator and more after having been in confinement for more than two months due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
If you use YouTube, Spotify, Amazon Music and other services you can reproduce content with a decent quality while avoiding spending many megabytes for each reproduction. For this, it is necessary to make at least one adjustment in each of the sites, being quite simple in each of the pages.
YouTube Music
YouTube Music allows you to listen to music and also videosIf you want to lower the quality, you will need a premium account, you also have many additional options. One of the important guidelines is to play content and not videos if you want to significantly lower your mobile data rate.
Once you are in the premium account, go to your user profile in the YouTube Music application, go to Settings> Playback and restrictions and change the audio quality in mobile data to low. You can also stop watching the video clips if you activate the option "Do not play music videos".
Spotify
Spotify lets you listen to music offline If you have saved playlists, but if you prefer to save a lot of megabytes, you can lower the bit rate when playing songs. If you use "Low" it will use 24 kbit / s instead of 96 if you have activated the normal rate or 160 kbit / s if the playback setting is high.
To get to lower it go to Settings in the Spotify app, click on Music quality and once inside press Low / Low. Another option to take into account is Download using mobile so that you get to download if you use the Wi-Fi connection at home or from a nearby point.
Amazon Music
Amazon Music has grown notably in user share, important above all so that the service grows and can be on par with others such as Spotify, YouTube or Google Play Music. Amazon Music uses a high rate when it comes to playing music and if you do not want to be surprised it is vital to lower it if you connect often with your 4G / 5G connection.
Amazon Music has the option to "Save Data"If you activate it, it will use moderately and automatically allow a positive balance of your connection. If you want to do it manually, click on the three points in the upper right, click Settings> Audio transmission quality, in Mobile Data select Data saving and activate it.
Google Play Music
Google Play Music offers many songs and it is starting to be widely used, since the service is growing steadily by having a lot of content added by Mountain View. If you want to save mobile data, it is important to take a small step to do so.
Go to Google Play Music, hit the Start button, inside click on Settings> Streaming and downloading> in streaming quality of mobile networks select "Low" to save many megabytes for each of the tracks. If you want to use Wi-Fi only, click Transmit only via Wi-Fi, to not use your data connection.