Downloads and audio quality
Offline downloads, streaming quality and saving data.
Download for offline
Right-click a song, album or playlist and choose Download. Only sources that allow downloads can be saved.
- Playlists can download new songs automatically.
- The download button's tooltip shows how many songs of a list are saved and how a running download is going.
- Downloaded songs always play from disk first, even online. Glyph checks for a newer version in the background and replaces the file only after a complete, verified download.
- Signed in, the list of downloads syncs; each device downloads the files itself.
Quality
Settings › Audio has separate choices for streaming and for downloads.
| Quality | YouTube audio | Good for |
|---|---|---|
| Low (data saver) | 48 kbps AAC | slow or metered connections |
| Standard | 96 kbps AAC | most connections |
| High | best source, about 128 kbps; downloads use FLAC where available | fast connections |
| Auto | chosen from your recent transfer speed | default |
Auto starts at Standard, steps down quickly when playback stalls and steps up only after several fast transfers. While streaming it can switch during a song, which may cause a short pause. Downloads choose once when they start. A manual choice is always kept.
Parallel downloads
Up to five songs download at the same time. These two options exist only in the settings file:
[audio]
download_parallelism = 5 # 1..10
download_adaptive = true # slow connection: 1, normal: up to 3, fast: the maximum
Data saver
Settings › Cache & Storage › Data saver loads small covers, refreshes the home feeds at most every 12 hours, syncs less often and downloads one song at a time.
Cache and storage
The same page shows how much space covers, lyrics, search data, the audio stream cache and downloads take, and clears each one. With a Cache size limit older files are removed automatically; downloads never are.