spotify doesn`t save to sd card

[Benote]

Hello,

on my WIko Wax spotify is unable to save offline music to the sd card. Although the internal disk is full and there is plenty of space on the sd card spotify just says "disk is full". I also emtied the catch and deleted all data...doesn't help.

Thank you for your ideas!

[javierin]

2 monitors, spoti on the left, google music on the right, copy + paste and search. Repeat 🙂

[anakondarh]

For those of you who are rooted, there is a free app in the Play Store which can help you link & move any folder from internal to external storage. This worked for me on a GPE HTC M8, on Android 6.0 Marshmallow.

On the app itself, use the "Folder Mount" option, not "Move app". I chose the com.spotify.music folder (I think that's what its called, going off of memory here) found in Android/data/, and moved it to a folder of my choosing on the SD. Solved. Spotify is not aware of the change, and all my music is on my SD again 🙂

Here's the link to the app:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.co.pricealert.apps2sd&hl=en

Hope this helps someone!

[hummer311]

And how about new music that you would have sync'ed *after* you had move the app folder? Does it automatically sync to the SD card, or do you have to manually move it (using the app)?

[mukitc]

it's easy .

https://support.spotify.com/us/problems/#!/article/switch-storage-of-spotify-files-from-internal-mem...

[jdgszorro]

Until Android 6.0 it's works, but now with this new version it doesn't work anymore. Spotify directly can write in the external 

SD card with Android Marshmallow.

[user-removed]

I've had this problem couple of times and I'm not really interested in completing the same worn out solution every time the app is updated, (including manually clicking "available offline" on every single album I had synced, any feature for that?). Needless to say, this "feature" is really crippling the usage of my phone.

I hate to be a bad sport but it's very disappointing that Spotify is delegating the help to the "Rock Stars" (it's a smart move though and probably saves the company a lot of money) and there's no people who actually work there who could actually give some meaningful insight to all of these issues.

So my question is this:
Is anyone at Spotify actually working on this problem, and if so when the solution can be expected?

[habylab]

I don't this will ever be fully fixed. Such lazy development.

[ricky757]

Yes this works fine. After you sync'ed the app folder you can download new offline music.

[habylab]

The developers emailed me to say they are working on fixing it right now.

[LG10]

My HTC M8 just filled up .. so I updated to Android 6.0.

I already have a 64GB SD card in the phone however Spotify didn't save to that then ... and after I wiped 10gig of offline music from following the suggested method.. the files still save to internal storage.

It's a joke that the app can't save to SD card by default, I've read some posts dating back to 2014 requeting this feature.

[Manzonim]

Hello,

I have exactly the same problem: Spotify is ignoring my external 64GB Samsung EVO+

All suggestions from here and the Spotify Support helped nothing. My LG G4 is only creating a directory on the SD card but all the files are savey on the internal storage. And yes, I have double checked this with ES Explorer and checked the filesize of the Spotify Directory as well.

I am open for all sugestions... but I think Spotify has a problem with the larger size of my SD Card or it is a problem from LG G4.

Does anyone has Experience with the combination of a LG G4 and a 64GB Samsung Evo+

[Manzonim]

Hello once again,

I had contact to the Spotify support. They recommended me all the suggestions which where discussed here in the community as well. But nothing helped me.

After the last try they said it seems there is an increasing number of users whith the same problem and it seems it is a problem with Android 6.

The problem is now forwarded to the experts... Lets see what they are coming up with...

Greetings, Martin

[ryanreitsma]

Using the ridiculous steps in all these troubleshooting threads, saving to an SD card DOES work on my Galaxy Note 4 running Lollipop. That being said, it still annoys the living hell out of me that you can't just designate the SD card as your storage option. It's such lazy development to continually leave this simple feature out. Google Music and Tidal both have this option. If Tidal has it, it can't be that hard to implement. 

[Slackware]

I completely agree. I have a HTC One M8 and nothing works, not a single of those fancy "how to" lists worked. Nothing. 

I just can't wrap my head around the fact that this issue is existent since about 2 years and yet the biggest music-streaming provider is not able to include an option to save to SD-card. 

Im pretty dissapointed about this tbh. 

[Dulop]

How it is possible that the biggest music streaming service doesn't have an option to save to SD card... It's ridiculous.

I'm now with a 3 month promo, but when it ends, I don't know if i'm gonna continue using it. If the problem persists. It's useless with the internal 4gb. My 16gb sd card is useless.

[user-removed]

Instead of telling people these weird workarounds why don't you code a better client?
Casting from computer to chromecast needs a workaround, this needs a workaround. What is that? A premature Linux distribution? Come on guys.

[RemCootsj]

I have a HTC one m8 too, and since the installation of Android 6.0 I have the same problem too.

Tried every solution mentioned here.

[Manzonim]

My suggestion is that everybody with Android 6 and the same problem is contacting the spotyfiy support to make them aware that it is not only a problem with some users. Usualy the are answering within 24h.

Pherhaps it is helpful to let the support know about this community entry here. 

[lgeleta]

I reported this issue to the support in the end of October and finally was told they are aware and working on a solution. Looks like until now their efforts are futile. Was given one month of free subscription and finally gave up on Spotify as the feature is essential for me.
Since then I have tried a couple of competitors and the outcome is not so good. All of them are able to write to external SD but have other disqualifing issues :
- Google Play Music : horrible playback quality, I do not mean sound quality but playback, it stops for a milliseconds and resumes very frequently sometimes even dozen of times per minute. It is not deterministic as sometimes it plays just fine. The library interface is quite strange and not convenient at all.
- Deezer - good playback but app does not update track name over bt, another serious feature I use
- Tidal - good playback quality, poor library, I cannot find most of music I listen usually. Application interface is awkward and hard to use.
In face of these I will probably get back to Spotify as soon as they fix the storage issue however I am afraid it is not going to happen very soon. The device base with MM is still less than 1% so they will be rather chasing competition with new stupid features like videos and wear support. Fixing external storage is not on their priority list as it works fine for all pre 6.0 versions.

[chansternator]

I have the EXACT same situation as you with my LG G4 and a 128GB Samsung EVO+. It was working perfectly fine until I updated to Android 6.0. Been trying for hours to figure this out but no dice.