- Spotify could launch a ‘Bulk Downloads’ feature
- This means you won’t have to delete and re-download your music to upgrade to offline lossless streaming.
- The platform could also add playback speed tools to music.
In recent weeks, Spotify has spoiled us with a number of new tools, including its partnership with Peloton, and shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon, with two more new features apparently in the works.
In Android Authority’s latest deep dive into the Spotify app, the outlet found a line of code that referenced a ‘Bulk Download’ feature, an update that users have long wanted and that could fix a small but frustrating issue for many.
As it stands, Spotify allows you to download music for offline playback in five different audio quality settings; low, normal, high, very high and no losses. But when the platform introduced lossless in September 2025, users noticed that changing the offline download quality to lossless would only apply that change to future downloads and would not automatically update existing ones, although 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 content of your downloads and then re-download them one by one to update them for offline listening.
Therefore, the addition of Bulk Downloads would be a welcome improvement, as it would eliminate this hassle for Premium subscribers who want to stream all the music in their download library offline and losslessly.
Android Authority also spotted code strings referring to warning notifications about data usage and storage space, and a popular podcast feature that could be on the way for music playback.
Is music playback speed on track?
Spotify already lets you change the speed of podcast playback, and in another teardown, Android Authority found code that suggests you’ll soon be able to change the speed of music playback, too.
At the moment there are no further details to suggest when it will arrive, or what speed options it will offer. With podcast playback speeds, you can choose between a range between 0.5x and 3.5x, so we could get the same options for music, but whether it’s a feature users will actually want is another question.
I’ve often used the playback speed feature while listening to podcasts when traveling, speeding up playback when conversations are too slow, so I can finish an episode faster.
But what benefit does this bring to music playback? I know it’s become a popular practice for artists to release sped-up and reverb versions of their songs that go viral, but still, those versions are no match for the original recordings. As a passionate album listener, I couldn’t think of a less satisfying way to listen to a body of work, or a single track, for that matter.
Maybe there are some people who want to read an album faster, rather than just enjoying it at its original length, but I can’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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