Deleting app data

[The_Arbiter]

Hi,

I'm new and I haven't seen any answers to this. If I'm wrong then please point me in the right direction.

Anyways, I am a non-premium user and recently have been annoyed that Spotify is using about 3gb of my phone storage. After a bit of digging I found that one could safely delete the app data and retain all playlists etc. Maybe I just don't understand, but is the 3gb of data simply playlist info? Will it be redownloaded once I log back in? I have yet to see if the cache begins to regrow, but if it's only stores audio then why would I as a non-premium user need to store such data (as offline access is a premium feature)?

Hope this wasn't too long and that somebody can help me with this.

Thanks.

[Joe · Accepted solution]

Spotify uses your device’s available memory storage for 2 purposes:

• To store temporary, or snippets of, music for streaming (i.e. as cache). This means that when you press play, you hear the music immediately with few interruptions.
• To store downloaded music if you listen offline (Premium only).

[The_Arbiter]

Thanks for the reply,

Then I assume it's okay to delete and limit the size of the cache as I am neither premium nor mind buffering.

Thanks.