topic Re: Premium - Help deleting downloaded songs in Android

Premium - Help deleting downloaded songs

SidneyHartha — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:11:43 GMT

I have Spotify Premium and I have many entire albums downloaded as playlists to my external sd card. I am trying to clear up some space on my external sd card and so I press on the album/playlist and then press "undownload". Then the songs/album do not show as downloaded anymore in Spotify, but the problem is I go through my phone's menu to check how much available space there is on my external sd card and it is exactly the same as before--even after "undownloading" 4 full albums. By the way, I have a Samsung S3.

Any suggestions on how I can really delete the albums from my external sd card?

Re: Premium - Help deleting downloaded songs

Peter__ — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:26:09 GMT

Hey 😉

I don't think there is a way to clear the Spotify cache from inside the android application. You will manually need to remove those files. There are instructions on this topic.

Peter

Re: Premium - Help deleting downloaded songs

SidneyHartha — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:34:18 GMT

Thanks. Now I see that if I go to /mnt/sdcard/Android/data/com.spotify.mobile.androi

d.ui/cache/Storage/ on my phone I can clear the cache of saved files. The problem for me though is that I don't want to clear all my downloads, and spotify labels their folders with random folder names (like 8c, 1a, etc) instead of the playlist/album name. Is there any way for me to tell which ones are which so I can only delete the ones I want?

Re: Premium - Help deleting downloaded songs

Peter__ — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:54:27 GMT

Hey again 🙂

I have asked someone how knows about the android client to answer this for you shortly 😉

Peter

Re: Premium - Help deleting downloaded songs

Liam — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:57:43 GMT

Go to Settings apps and select Spotify, then clear cache 🙂

Re: Premium - Help deleting downloaded songs

licenced — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 23:47:05 GMT

Hi there.
The clear cache option mentioned above will delete all downloaded content. If youmark a given playlist to un-download then it will not be removed straight away ... spotify keeps the data for a while in case its needs again. However it will be removed after a while. We've tried to ascertain how long that might be but spotify haven't given a concrete answer ... but it will clear down the space eventually

Re: Premium - Help deleting downloaded songs

SidneyHartha — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 14:42:10 GMT

@licenced wrote:
Hi there.
The clear cache option mentioned above will delete all downloaded content. If youmark a given playlist to un-download then it will not be removed straight away ... spotify keeps the data for a while in case its needs again. However it will be removed after a while. We've tried to ascertain how long that might be but spotify haven't given a concrete answer ... but it will clear down the space eventually

OK great! Thanks for looking into that for me.

Re: Premium - Help deleting downloaded songs

KevinH51 — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:51:49 GMT

I have Android 4.1.2 on an S3. I wish I could easily move the music storage to the ext sd but can't. So I did a clear cache under manage apps and the cache usage by the app went from 3.61 GB to 0 B. Spotify said my playlists were still downloaded but they didn't act like it. I undownloaded and re-downloaded, didn't help. I restarted the phone and Spotify agreed nothing was downloaded, so it needed the restart. Downloaded some playlists again and the cache usage is going up again.

As others have said Spotify should clean up the cache eventually if you undownload playlists. Clearing the whole cache for the app is a bit drastic but at least now I understand what happens.

Re: Premium - Help deleting downloaded songs

magic_mike_us_k — Wed, 22 May 2013 02:58:08 GMT

Great, KevinH51, this works 🙂 Thanks a lot! Have an S3 although.

Re: Premium - Help deleting downloaded songs

elspotifyo — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 16:16:36 GMT

Well it would be great though to know how long the deleted playlists are kept in cache... Really!

Re: Premium - Help deleting downloaded songs

pogingpayatot — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 14:35:17 GMT

1. click undownload

2. fast forward time & date settings

3. check storage capacity if space has been reclaimed

4. change back to original time & date settings

5. youre welcome

Re: Premium - Help deleting downloaded songs

annikahalme — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 19:20:38 GMT

If you, for example, want to un-download certain playlist, there is a "Cancel Download" option where you open the playlist there should be three dots in the right corner and there is cancelling option. Worked for me when I downloaded a playlist with 1000+ songs

Re: Premium - Help deleting downloaded songs

BelgianAlien — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 17:42:39 GMT

Has anyone else tried this? How far forward should data/time be set?