Hello people of Steems,

In this article I'll show you workarounds to get everything out of the free version of Spotify.

Windows

High quality audio

To get high streaming quality you only have to change a settings file. Be sure to kill the Spotify application first.

1. Win+R or Run...
2. Go to %appdata%/spotify/
3. Open the prefs file in a text editor
4. Add these two lines:
   audio.sync_bitrate=320000
audio.play_bitrate=320000

   
5. Save & Close
6. Right-click the prefs file and choose Properties
7. Check the Read-only box and press OK
   

No Ads

1. Download this file and run it as administrator..
2. Done!
   Source

What is does:
Windows uses a hosts-file that maps hostnames to IP-addresses.
You can find it here: %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\
And this is what it looks like:

The script adds the last couple of lines you see in the image to the hosts-file. By doing that, Windows maps the urls where Spotify gets it's ads on to 0.0.0.0. That way Spotify can't load ads.

Android (root only)

Skips songs / Tablet mode

For this to work you need Xposed framework.

1. Download and install SpotifySkip
2. Enable the module and reboot your device.
   Be sure the version for Spotify you have is not too new. I used Spotify 5.9.0.774

Disable ads

For this you need Xposed
I installed the module UnbelovedHosts
And added AdZHosts [experimental]. It's a huge file that blocks a lot of ads. This worked for me to get Spotify ad free.

High quality audio

1. Open a file explorer and go to root/data/data/com.spotify.music/files/settings/Users/????/
2. Change audio.play_bitrate_enumeration=3 to audio.play_bitrate_enumeration=4

Thanks for reading!

If you really like Spotify, you should definitely pay for it.