topic Re: Save Spotify to internal SD Card in Android

Save Spotify to internal SD Card

JakeTheDog — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 07:47:17 GMT

Hello!

Is there a way to save Spotify to an internal formatted SD card? The feature in the Spotify options only allows you to save it to an external formatted SD card. Unfortunately, that is pretty useless and I explain why:

External formatted SD cards don't allow the user to save apps to their SD card on Android devices. However, my apps already use up all of my internal storage and I always need to delete something in order to install a new app. I would have to format my SD card to internal, so as to move some of my apps to my SD card. Sadly, If I do so I can't save Spotify to my SD card. I would have to place it in my internal phone storage. Yet Spotify uses up so much space on my phone, that this is impossible, even if I move every moveable app to my internal formatted SD card to make room on my internal phone storage.

So in the long run I would either have to find a solution to save Spotify to an internal formatted SD card or I would, regrettably, get rid of my Spotify premium account. I'm sorry, but I just can't understand why you would make an app only saveable on external SD cards, while every other app in the world is only compatible with internal formatted SD cards...

Re: Save Spotify to internal SD Card

Joe — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 10:42:34 GMT

If your SD card is formatted as "internal" storage apps don't see an external SD card, just a large pool of internal storage, so the option to save music there won't appear. The android OS decides where to place files. There is a way to parttion yur SD card into part, internal and part external storage but you'll need to search Google for instructions on how to do this.

Re: Save Spotify to internal SD Card

JakeTheDog — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 10:51:59 GMT

Sorry but I have to disagree. If I format it as internal storage, I see both storages seperately and my apps do as well. I can then go into Options->Apps select an app and choose to place it onto my internal SD card or I can also use an app to move every movable app to my SD card.

If I format the SD card as external, this option doesn't appear and I can't place any apps on my SD card. This is a feature that came with the Marshmallow upgrade. Until then it was not possible to place apps on the SD card at all (without hacking at least).

Re: Save Spotify to internal SD Card

Joe — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 10:54:15 GMT

Maybe check out this post.

Re: Save Spotify to internal SD Card

Joe — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 11:04:54 GMT

There's a post in this thread which may help you.

Re: Save Spotify to internal SD Card

JakeTheDog — Fri, 09 Jun 2017 19:05:48 GMT

Unfortunately, the post didn't help me. I can't move Spotify to my SD card as described in step 4. The option simply doesn't appear. I think this is intendet, as Spotify wants the user to use the internal option to save the music on the SD card. Which is again only possible with SD cards formatted as mobile 😞

Any other suggestions?

Re: Save Spotify to internal SD Card

JakeTheDog — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 12:49:48 GMT

So, is there a solution to this yet? It's still very impractical the way it is right now...

Re: Save Spotify to internal SD Card

_M-I-K-I_ — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 16:41:14 GMT

I've the same problem. I've specially bought 64 GBSD Card. Before, I decided to format SD card as internal, I saw this option, but now I'be 3 GB of free space in HTC ONE M8S, and I've poblem with downloading offline albums. Spotify Please fix this. 😕

Re: Save Spotify to internal SD Card

CiozZ — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 15:33:20 GMT

Same problem here also.

This issue keeps me away from buying a new premium subscription, just because my internal formatted SD card cannot be used for downloading the music...

This is very disappointing.

Re: Save Spotify to internal SD Card

JakeTheDog — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 15:41:35 GMT

So what can we do to make the developers more aware of this problem? It seems our issue is not really noticed in this forum, even though this is a huge problem if you want to use Spotify on any Android phone that supports external SDs...

Re: Save Spotify to internal SD Card

Olilili — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 20:33:30 GMT

Same problem here... I think that it's an stupid if case that hides the storage option in the Spotify app itself.. They are just doing it so that people without any sd card haveno wrong hopes..

No support for android new storage option rmakes me sad