Spotify Always Downloading

[djabele]

Plan

Premium

Country

USA

Device

Samsung Z Fold 3

Operating System

Android 12

My Question or Issue

This is an ongoing issue and is very annoying. Whenever I open Spotify on my mobile, I get the notification of "downloading # out of # (93% complete)" or something along that. The percentage always changes as does the number of songs it is trying to download. I cannot see what it is trying to download to see if something is up with the song or playlist or what. I will turn of wifi and have mobile data on and change the setting to allow downloads over data...and it still doesnt fix it. I have given spotify access and permissions to everything. The only time I can get it to go away is if I clear the cache. But as soon as I open Spotify it does it again. This issue is not only an eye sore of a notification, but makes me nervous that it's draining battery life and whatnot.

I have tried in the past to Uninstall and reinstall, but that doesn't always fix it. Plus, I have over 30GB downloaded and would prefer not to have to always reinstall the app and re-download all them songs. What can I do to fix the constant "downloading songs" notification?

The downloading seems to be a constant loop that never finishes. As you can see from the pictures, I screenshotted 11mins apart and the downloading notification is the same. No more songs were downloaded in that span. Which seems to indicate something is broken between Spotify and android.

[djabele]

Hey I actually found a reason as to why my android was having the same problem as you were describing. It turns out I was subscribed to a Radio-Playlist for some song and I had marked to download it, this was causing this issue and notification in the pull down tab to go away. And it has yet to come back since I have unmarked the radio list. Hope this helps, mostly because the customer support for isn't up to snuff on their own app. 

[srj_11]

 I think I've figured it out, its smart shuffle that is causing behaviour, atleast in my case. When I turn of smart shuffle on the playlists I have downloaded, the downloading stops.

[djsprout]

Nailed it. THANK YOU!!! 

[djsprout]

Nailed it! THANK YOU "hadtomakeanact*

[vaajy]

My problem vanished away by changing sd card to samsung evo plus designed for mobile apps.

From previous one I've got full cashback because it was faulty and had 5 year long warranty. Dead in 2 years.

Spotify downloaded severally all day long... and no data usage.

In my case smart shuffle was not an issue. Yet it can be, if activated.