How to Download Audio Only in Podcasts with Video on Spotify

Podcasts have gained a huge presence on Spotify and they have more and more followers in Europe. You can find a lot of podcasts in the streaming app, and new features related to them have been introduced such as graphics.

One of the most recent developments in this field was the introduction of video podcasts, available since the beginning of this year on Spotify. In some selected podcasts in addition to audio we have video, for a different experience. Although while downloading such podcasts to the phone, it might be a problem.

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Download only podcast audio on Spotify

Spotify users have the ability to download podcasts to their phones, in order to listen to it without needing an Internet connection, when and where they want. The problem is, when you want to download this podcast as a video, it will be overweight because it is a file that includes both video and audio. Many users don’t want to download the video because all they care about is the audio.

If you want to download a podcast to your phone and it turns out to be a podcast with video, the app gives you the option to download audio only

. This will allow the download to be less cumbersome, faster and take up less space on your device for it. If you want to download audio only, you need to configure this option first, following these steps:

Open Spotify on your phone.
Click on the gear icon at the top right.
Go to the first section of Data Backup.
Enable the Podcasts with audio only option.

By activating this option in your Spotify account, when you are going to download a podcast on your Android phone and it is a podcast with video, only audio will be downloaded

. This will allow you to consume less mobile data during said downloads, in addition to speeding up said downloading, since audio weighs less than video. Once this is done, the podcast will play normally, with audio only.