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Spotify playlist cover size: 640 × 640 px

The square playlist cover, at the size Spotify asks for and inside its file limit.

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Spotify playlist cover size at a glance

Square, small, and JPEG only

Spotify wants a square cover, at least 300 × 300, and 640 × 640 is the size it publishes as the recommendation. The upload has to be a JPEG and must stay under 4 MB, which is why a PNG export — the natural choice for flat artwork with text — is rejected outright rather than converted.

Covers are displayed small in most places: a tile in a grid, a thumbnail in a now-playing bar, a row in a search result. A cover that works is one whose subject survives at about 100 pixels. Album-style artwork with a single strong element beats a detailed collage every time.

Custom covers apply to playlists you own, and replacing one is permanent in the sense that the mosaic of album art Spotify generates by default does not come back once you have set your own. Worth having a version you are happy with before you upload.

How to resize an image to 640 × 640

  1. Drop your image on the panel above — or paste it, or drop several at once to do a batch.
  2. The width and height are already set to 640 × 640, and the aspect lock is off so both numbers are honoured exactly.
  3. If your source is a different shape, crop it to 1:1 first — resizing a different ratio straight to these numbers stretches it.
  4. Pick an output format. JPEG for photographs, PNG for flat colour, text and anything needing transparency.
  5. Download. Nothing was uploaded at any point — the resize ran on your own machine, in this tab.

Questions

Why was my PNG rejected?

Spotify accepts JPEG for playlist covers. Convert first — the conversion is lossless in the sense that matters here, since the artwork has to be re-encoded for upload anyway.

Does a bigger cover look better?

Not meaningfully. Above 640 × 640 you are sending pixels that are only ever displayed small. Legibility at thumbnail size is what changes.

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