- Spotify could offer a “Bulk Downloads” feature
- This means you won’t need to delete and re-download your music to switch to offline lossless streaming.
- The platform could also bring playback speed tools to music
Over the past few weeks, Spotify has spoiled us with a number of new tools, including its partnership with Peloton, and it shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon, with two more new features apparently in the works.
During Android Authority’s latest in-depth analysis of the Spotify app, the outlet came across a line of code referencing a “bulk download” feature, an upgrade that users have wanted for some time and which could solve a small, frustrating problem for many.
As it stands, Spotify lets you download music for offline playback with five different audio quality settings: low, normal, high, very high, and lossless. But when the platform was unveiled lossless in September 2025, users noticed that changing your offline download quality to lossless would only apply that change to future downloads and would not automatically upgrade your existing downloads, even though Spotify does so automatically for lossless levels.
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This can be quite a tedious task, especially if you have a fairly large library of downloaded music, as you have to delete the contents of your downloads and then re-download them one by one to switch to offline lossless listening.
So the addition of bulk downloads would be a welcome improvement, eliminating this problem for Premium subscribers who want offline lossless streaming of all the music in their downloads library.
Android Authority also spotted strings of code referencing warning notifications about data usage and storage space, as well as a popular podcast feature that could be on the way for music playback.
Is music playback speed on?
Spotify already lets you change the playback speed of podcasts, and in another teardown, Android Authority found code suggesting you’ll soon be able to change the playback speed of music as well.
At the moment, there are no further details suggesting when it will arrive, or what speed options it will offer. With podcast playback speeds, you can choose between 0.5x and 3.5x, so we could get the same options for music – but whether this is a feature users will actually want is another question.
I’ve often used the playback speed feature when listening to podcasts while traveling, speeding up playback when conversations are too slow, so I can get through an episode more quickly.
But what benefit does this bring to music playback? I know it’s become a popular practice for artists to release sped-up, reverbed versions of their songs that go viral, but even then, those versions don’t live up to the original recordings. As an avid album listener, I couldn’t imagine a less satisfying way to listen to a work, or a single track for that matter.
Maybe there are people who would like to get through an album more quickly, rather than just enjoying it in its original length, but I just don’t see it. If Spotify does indeed introduce such a feature, it will be interesting to see how the streaming giant tries to present it to users.
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