- Every device and app appears to have ulterior motives. There's a reason app developer is the 'fastest growing six-figure job.' Is Spotify a music streaming service or a data hoarder?
- You can still listen to Spotify as normal during the transfer. Spotify restarts afterwards. Desktop: Click the arrow next to your username in the top-right corner of the desktop app and select Settings. Scroll down and click SHOW ADVANCED SETTINGS. Scroll down to Offline songs storage to see where your cache is stored.
I already deleted cache and saved data multiple times (and tired of loggin in again and adjusting preferences). One week ago I deleted cache and now the data stored is already 1,14 GB (app indeed only 99.57MB). I know the solution is getting more storage on my phone, but it's a company phone so I don't feel like doing it.
Since Spotify’s latest (0.5.3.56) update, premium users on Android are not able store their offline music onto their external SD cards, which is a bit of a nightmare considering the limited capacity of standard internal storage of phones. I recently bought a Galaxy Note 2 and had been storing the music on the phone until today I realised I was running dangerously out of space.
Julian Young asked Spotify for an official comment and the response he received:
Yes you are right the new App does not support external SD cards and only focuses on internal systems. I am very sorry that your needs are not covered by this and I will happily forward your request to our development team.
We do everything to provide the best possible service to our customers and aim to cover all demands and needs. I would also like to thank you for bringing this to us because it will support our development cycle.
However, on the same page and on various other sites including the official Spotify community, there are instructions on a workaround to this issue which I have successfully managed to implement. The following are the steps I took to accomplish this, so if you’re also looking to store your Spotify music on your external SD card, give it a go. It’s really straight forward and took me less than 5 mins in total.
Spotify App Data Storage Pricing
- Uninstall the Spotify app from your phone
- Install an earlier version of Spotify – there are several online, but I used this one from Android Drawer
- Start the app but don’t login
- Select the SD location from your Android’s Menu button and locate your external SD card*
- Save and close (Some sites instruct you to log in and make one playlist available offline before closing down the app, but the app kept crashing on me).
- Go to Play Store, and update Spotify app
- Your offline playlists will now be stored on the external SD card while rocking the latest Spotify Android app!
*External SD card locations for various Android phones Spotify premium.apk 8.4.75.670 with radio working.
Free spotify account creator bot discord. Samsung Galaxy Note 2: /storage/extSdCard
Samsung Galaxy S2: /mnt/sdcard/external_sd
Samsung Galaxy S3: /mnt/extSdCard/
Samsung Galaxy S: /mnt/sdcard/external_sd
LG P990 2X: /mnt/sdcard/_ExternalSD
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HomeAppleSpotify App Accused of Thrashing Storage Drives With Excessive Data Writes
Spotify’s desktop music streaming app has been accused of putting an unnecessary burden on users’ machines by continuously writing massive amounts of data to local storage, even when the app is idle.
Over the last five months, multiple users have posted about the problem in Spotify’s official support forum, as well as on Reddit, Hacker News, and elsewhere. Users claim the Spotify app has been writing inordinate amounts of data to their drives while running in the background, in some cases writing up to 10GB every 40 seconds.
Reports of tens or hundreds of gigabytes of data being written in an hour have become commonplace, said ArsTechnica, which was able to replicate the problem on Macs running the current version of the Spotify app. The data writes appear to occur regardless of whether songs are set to be stored locally or if music is actually being played, potentially significantly reducing the life of users’ storage drives – particularly SSD devices, which have a finite amount of write capacity.
“This is a *major* bug that currently affects thousands of users,” Spotify user Paul Miller told Ars. “If for example, Castrol Oil lowered your engine’s life expectancy by five to 10 years, I imagine most users would want to know, and that fact *should* be reported on.”
Spotify eventually responded to ArsTechnica‘s requests for comment and said “any potential concerns have now been addressed” in version 1.0.42 of the app, which is in the process of being rolled out, but which reportedly remains unavailable to many users.
According to some reports, the data writes are thought to involve playlist-related database files with titles that include the string Mercury.db. Several manual workarounds to stop the writes have been suggested in the forums, but the best short-term solution for concerned Mac users may be to use Spotify through their browser until the app update becomes available and the issue is independently confirmed fixed.
Source: Mac Rumors
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