topic Re: Podcast Video Data Usage in Desktop (Windows)

Podcast Video Data Usage

Pička — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 11:06:19 GMT

Operating System

Windows 10

My Question or Issue

One JRE podcast has used approximately up to 10-12.5 GB of data in 3 hours after streaming a single episode from the desktop app. This is quite excessive. Why is there not an option to disable video playback?

I can download the same video from YouTube at approximately 4.29 GB, or a compressed audio only track for 150 MB. In the meantime, I guess that's the best option until Spotify users are provided customisation options to suit their constraints?

Re: Podcast Video Data Usage

Xenia — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 16:02:42 GMT

Hey there @Pička,

Thanks for sharing your thoughts about this in the Community!

We understand where you're coming from and will make sure all your feedback reaches the right teams and our developers will take it into consideration when moving forward with updating the app.

It looks like other people feel the same way and there's already an idea for an option to disable videos in podcasts here - it's well worth giving it a vote to show your support.

The Idea Exchange is a great way for us to see what our users are interested in and how many people like a certain idea. You can read more about it here.

Hope this helps. Let us know if you have any further questions.

Re: Podcast Video Data Usage

Dlampie — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 13:35:11 GMT

Any change? It’s taking more than a half year to make a off button.
It is very strange that you require people to load video with a podcast and then also of this extremely large size.

Re: Podcast Video Data Usage

Kailedy — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 23:59:34 GMT

4 years later and still no response.... It says it all really

Re: Podcast Video Data Usage

theboves — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 23:32:07 GMT

It turns out that you can turn this off but only for downloads and for when you’re not on WiFi. I was trying to figure it out and found this thread.