Spotify for Windows writes excessive amounts of data to the SSD/disk

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Plan

Premium

Country

Australia

Device

Windows desktop computer

12-generation Intel 12400F

Samsung NVME SSD

Operating System

Windows 11 23H2

App version

Spotify for Windows (64 bit)
1.2.65.255.g85e641b4

My Question or Issue

After 8 hours of use, Spotify has written over 30GB of data to my SSD (according to Sysinternals Process Monitor, which is considered an accurate system monitoring tool and can be downloaded from Microsoft's website).

However, my cache file is only 4502MB, or just over 4.5GB in size.

I only listen to music and don't watch music videos.

Whenever I search for new music or browse playlists - and to a lesser extent, while playing music - I've noticed that Process Monitor records Spotify writing several megabytes of data per second. Leaving Spotify running the background playing either one of my playlists or a playlist by another user results in gigabytes of data being written to the SSD.

I'd like an explanation from the Spotify technical team as to why I/O write bytes are so high. Happy to provide technical logs from Sysinternals Process Monitor.

Despite playing my music at Spotify's highest quality setting, we know that their tracks on the desktop app are available to play in the Ogg format at 320kbps

This issue has been reported as far back as 2016

My app settings

Streaming and download quality: Very high

Auto adjust audio quality: deactivated

Normalise volume: Activated and set to Normal volume level

Show local files: deactivated

Publish new playlists on my profile: activated

Start a private session: deactivated

Share my listening activity on Spotify: activated

Show my recently played artists on my public profile: activated

Show my follower and following lists on my public profile: activated

Crossfade songs: activated and set to 10 seconds

Automix: activated

Mono audio: deactivated

Equaliser: set to flat preset

Open Spotify automatically after you log in to the computer: deactivated

Cache location: default

Proxy type: autodetect settings

Enable hardware acceleration: activated