Huge amount of data being consumed by Spotify

[veloblur]

I am using the Motorola G4 Plus (Android 7.0) with Spotify Premium installed. This past billing cycle, within 3 weeks, the app has consumed 3.37 GB of data. I still have a week to go before the data counter reset. It has never been this large before. I only listen when I'm driving in the car for maybe an hour a day tops. Can the data usage be this high?

I have tried clearing the cache, logging out and back in again, uninstalling and reinstalling the app. I only download the songs using Wifi. Cellular download is turned off.

Has there been a change to the app to cause it to download more data?

[juanlive-6]

I've noticed the same. Data consumption has increased as well over mobile data as over wifi, both in my mobile phone. I used to use around 6 GB over wifi and 1.5 over mobile data, and both of them has doubled since two months ago. Wifi is not much a problem (it only reduces the bandwidth on my home) but mobile data forces me to change my mobile plan.

I turned the data to the minimum quality, but the problem persist.

Is Spotify buffering too much data in advance, or has it doubled the bps of the protocol?

[paul-and-kim]

I've also got this problem, Spotify has used over 1.1gb of my 2gb allowance, and all I do is play already downloaded music in the car, and only download everything on WiFi.

Latest Android version and it's started happening in the last 2 months.

Going to try a reinstall, then will have to restrict background data if it keeps doing it.

Going to have to buy more data now for the next week, thanks Spotify! 

[user-removed]

Maybe you should Off your data before streaming on music and listen on downloaded songs.

-Aloy