topic Re: Spotify is storing too much data on internal storage in Android

Spotify is storing too much data on internal storage

alejovbullon — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 00:57:37 GMT

Hi, I want to know why Spotify app for Android (I don't know if the same problem is happening on iOS) is storing a huge amount of data on internal storage without downloading songs. Every time I run the app and play an album or playlists, I can see how the app data size is increasing as if songs were downloading. I've been dealing with this problem since two weeks, I thought it'd fix it but nothing is happen until now. Please does anybody have the same issue or help me?

Re: Spotify is storing too much data on internal storage

Joe — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 02:23:53 GMT

It caches music to save bandwidth as explained here.

Re: Spotify is storing too much data on internal storage

alejovbullon — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 02:52:00 GMT

I'm not talking about cache data but app data itself

Re: Spotify is storing too much data on internal storage

Joe — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 11:34:41 GMT

The cache is iincluded in the app data for spotify.

Re: Spotify is storing too much data on internal storage

Cannes — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 18:00:37 GMT

I'm having the same problem. 2,18 GB of app data (no downloaded albums or music), less than 2 MB of cache.
I need a solution for this! I can't use my phone properly due to lack of available space used up by Spotify app.

Re: Spotify is storing too much data on internal storage

Joe — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 20:54:49 GMT

Use the option in spotify's settings to store the cache on an external SD card.

Re: Spotify is storing too much data on internal storage

brodyriver — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 06:47:17 GMT

I cannot find the the option to save data on external drive.

All the references to how to change that in any of the posts i have read are not correct. I assume Spotify has changed it for some reason. Nice one Spotify. 😞

@Joe wrote:
Use the option in spotify's settings to store the cache on an external SD card.

Re: Spotify is storing too much data on internal storage

massalim — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 03:35:40 GMT

My cache data takes almost 8gb. It will keep growing until sd card memory runs out?