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jamesbeuerlein · ‎2012-03-20

To avoid running up data charges for those of use without unlimited plans on our mobile devices: It would be fantastic if spotify could detect the absence of the WiFi network and automatically switch to offline mode to avoid streaming on 3G/4G. Ideally, you could turn this option on or off depending on your preference. Even the ability to simply turn off 3G streaming would be an improvement (this option already exists for synching). As it is, i have to remember to turn offline mode on and off everytime i leave a wifi network. This frequent toggling of the offline mode has resulted in the loss of my synched content on several occasions. Adding this feature to the settings menu would save me time and money, improve the overall experience of the app, and create another draw for the premium subscription. Anyone agree? Thanks!

jayrom · ‎2015-02-25

Hi, I have noticed that it happens often that I just delete a whole offline playlist by error by switching the offline button. (I have a playlist with more than 1000 songs). Can you just double check when the offline button is moved from offline to online (when the songs are going to be deleted). For example, you could prompt me with a window "Your offline records are going to be deleted, are you sure ?" I am sure that would help all the people like me who travels and just delete an entire playlist just before boarding the plane or something like this. Thanks a lot for your support, you have the best service. A spotify fan. Jerome

lexor · ‎2012-12-21

I store my music on an external drive. My hard drive space is too limited to have my entire collection on it when I have a good sized external drive. I've set Spotify's cache (where offline music is stored) to that external drive. That works fine. However, if I start Spotify without my external drive plugged in, rather than saying that Spotify couldn't find the music and to please mount the drive or listen to music via streaming, Spotify starts redownloading all the music that I set to offline and changes the cache location back to the local drive. Even if I then plug my external drive in, it has to redownload all the offline music. This isn't convenient when I have 2,000 offline tracks. That takes a while to download. I would like Spotify to recognize that my external drive isn't mounted and then say: you'll be unable to listen to your offline music. Then pause any syncing until my external drive is plugged back in (and look for the tracks when it gets plugged back in rather than starting syncing all over when all the tracks are still on the external drive). I'm sure I can't be the only person that would like to store their music on an external drive. As it is right now I'm forced to make sure I have my external drive with me wherever I go or not open Spotify on my laptop (because if I do it will have to resync EVERYTHING, even once I plug my drive back in). Thanks for reading and considering 🙂

vt1 · ‎2014-06-08

This is a feature available on the competition, which allows one to play a playlist of everything that is cached on your mobile device (at least on iOS). This helps when you don't want to plan ahead for which songs should be offline.

summerstripes · ‎2014-10-15

I have several playlists that are labeled "pending", presumably because I've hit my ridiculous 3,333 song limit on my iPhone. I see no easy way of knowing which songs have not successfully synced and I have a large number of local files that are pretty important to have available in offline mode (the entire AC/DC catalouge. grumble.). It would be great if spotify could flag or highlight tracks that are still pending so I can more easily determine how to manage my playlists.

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Orlandobp · ‎2014-08-16

An Enable/Disable Offline mode widget As a user with limited Internet access, the Offline mode is an incredibly useful tool. However, it is kind of annoying to switch every time from the configuration option. A simpme button in my home screen would be perfect. Thanks.

Liam · ‎2013-02-06

I dual boot between Windows and Ubuntu, and I use Spotify on both. I also want to use offline mode on both, but along with my laptop, I also have 2 other Android devices. This means that I have 3 devices, however Spotify takes in the 2 operating systems as 2 devices, so I cannot use my offline mode correctly. I do believe that Spotify should take a dual boot as only one offline device, because it is only one device (it only has one storage area!). Thanks for reading.

sptalx · ‎2014-11-14

I've been a Spotify subscriber for 4 or 5 years now, and the three device limit for offline sync has always seemed a bit on the low side. At the moment I regularly use 5 devices (Android smartphone, android tablet, iPad Air, Linux laptop and Windows desktop). Only being able to use three of these for offline access is somewhat annoying (note that Apple iTunes allows 5 devices) This means lots of resyncing and downloading of tracks over mobile data at times (I can easily chew through 700MB+ when I'm travelling - notably when downloading tracks before I end up at a hotel with terrible or heavily filtered/restricted internet or being in an area without 3G). So, please up the limit for number of offline devices. I'm thinking 6 sounds like a more sensible number. You might also want to think about providing users with other options for offline access, where they can choose the most suitable for their use. For example, you could have, say, three options where the user can change between them: "Up to 3 devices, playback is locked out after 30 days of that device not being logged-in to spotify" (default) OR "Up to 6 devices, playback is locked out after 15 days of that device not being logged-in to spotify" OR "An unlimited number of devices, but you must have logged in within the past 48 hours for offline playback to function.")

Liam · ‎2013-02-10

Occasionally, when I am using Spotify on multiple devices, offline access for one of my devices gets revoked. I normally just mark the playlists for offline use again, but Spotify downloads all of the tracks again, meaning that I use around 600MB of internet. This is unnacceptable, as 600MB is a lot, and it takes ages to download, especially on my measily mobile broadband connection. This happens on both the desktop and mobile clients. So my idea is that the clients shouldn't redownload tracks - they should keep them there until they are manually deleted, so that people don't have to download them again. I did search, but couldn't find a duplicate. Sorry if it is 😕

Spotify Community

Closed Ideas

Smart Offline Mode with no WiFi

Double check when people touch the offline button

Make Storing Offline Music on an External Drive Easier

Auto-create playlist based on cached songs

Way to see which songs are "pending"?

Offline Mode Widget

Class dual boots as one device, because they are!

Permit more than 3 devices to sync for offline access (ideally 6 or more).

Cache Offline Tracks