topic Re: Offline playlists still consume data in iOS (iPhone, iPad)

Offline playlists still consume data

Peter123456789 — Sun, 18 May 2014 16:25:33 GMT

I have playlists completely synced to my iphone. When I play them they still load (partly?) from the internet. This is a problem on roaming.

When I go offline they dont use internet, but I cannot use any other spotify functions.

Always switching online/offline is not a smart solution. Please prevent offline playlists from using internet, or give a setting which would allow us to do that.

Other spotify functions should remain working so I dont want to use offline mode.

Thanks

Peter

Re: Offline playlists still consume data

Marco — Mon, 19 May 2014 22:17:24 GMT

Hmm, actually I thought this bug was fixed a while ago.

I've moved your topic over here in the help section since this shouldn't happen with the newest version.

Maybe @Peter__ knows how to go from here. 😉

Re: Offline playlists still consume data

Peter__ — Tue, 20 May 2014 00:22:43 GMT

How much data usage are we talking?

When online, even listening to offline playlists Spotify will consume some data to report track plays to Spotify, scrobble to Facebook and last.fm, check your playing devices with Spotify Connect and download album/cover artwork which can use a bit of data.

Re: Offline playlists still consume data

EZlisten — Tue, 20 May 2014 06:26:22 GMT

The loading of artwork should mos def be optional, preferrably the other data consuming processes should be too.

Re: Offline playlists still consume data

Peter123456789 — Tue, 20 May 2014 09:38:54 GMT

hello thanks for your replies. It was about 50-100 MB for 20 songs. It is not much, but on roaming it is a lot! Please could you implement a setting which would prevent all data use when listening to offline playlists? (or at least to limit it to for example 5 MB for 100-200 songs)

Actually we can already prevent this by either setting spotify in offline mode (than I can use only very limited functions and need to switch it on and off, which is not good if I switch between home / roaming network each week) or iphone airplane mode (which is also useless).

Thanks

Peter

Re: Offline playlists still consume data

Peter123456789 — Fri, 23 May 2014 19:30:06 GMT

Hi what do you think about implementing this setting?

Peter

Re: Offline playlists still consume data

Peter__ — Sat, 24 May 2014 00:27:10 GMT

Just so I understand (to have a search through the ideas database), you want a setting to force offline mode when roaming?

Re: Offline playlists still consume data

jeremygoh — Sat, 24 May 2014 17:57:53 GMT

For ultimate offline - it's gotta be settings -> offline mode, isn't it?

Re: Offline playlists still consume data

Peter123456789 — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:00:44 GMT

Hello

I didnt mean the classic offline mode. When I am abroad listening to OFFLINE playlists I would like to prevent any data download by spotify itself, however I still want to be able to search in the databases and mainly I want to see and edit my playlists. Which should only consume few data?

Also it would be fine to have a setting to enable this "data saving mode" always when I am on roaming.

Do you think it´s possible?

Thanks

PEter

Re: Offline playlists still consume data

Peter123456789 — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 16:47:08 GMT

Hi what do you think about implementing this setting?

Peter

Re: Offline playlists still consume data

DannyWestside — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 03:46:30 GMT

Try putting your phone in airplane mode

Re: Offline playlists still consume data

Micho20 — Sat, 14 Jan 2017 16:52:50 GMT

Its happening again!! Lost half on my cellular data!