Data usage

[TonyDZ]

Hi all,

I am a premium subscriber and regularly use Spotify using a high speed internet dongle from Telstra in Australia. Over the past month my data usage has skyrocketed, however nothing that I am doing has changed apart from Spotify being updated. I am now looking at my dongle and it says I am using 1MB per second! That is ridiculous! Why is this happening suddenly when it was not this high a while ago?

[Joe]

Hi. If you're using the desktop client, it uses the p2p protocol to stream music. It also serves music in your cache to other spotify users so, if you are on a restricted data plan, it would be better to use the web player for now.  Spotify has announced that it will be moving away from p2p soon and they'll announce when this happens.