[Desktop] Restore Cache Location Specification

[Talavar]

I run on a machine with a small SSD for my OS and critical applications.

In previous versions of Spotify I have set my cache to my larger hard drive. Now this is no longer possible.

Now I am constantly having to manually clear my cache and am unable to specify where I want the files to be kept.

This needs to be restored.

[SubzeroSC]

@Malachy 

Thank you. I ahve already cancled my subscription but for the ramaining week I paied for I will atlease be able to move the cache files to not take up my SSD.

[Arturo_Emillio]

The change the cache location within the config file is reported to be disabled, it's not working anymore. Spotify doesn't want you to be able to change the cache location.

The option to create symbolic links is too much hassle to do something is was implemented before.

I don't pay for a service that doesn't fullfill the function i'm paying it for. And in the case they take away that functionality it's even more hateful  and insulting.

Definitely i don't think i'll come back ever to Spotify. 

[Anamon]

Something in Spotify's product managemend is badly messed up. First I found out that recent updates prevent me from finding the music I want to listen to (filtering removed), and now I find that I can't even listen to any music properly anymore (because Spotify's cache tends to slow playback down rather than speed it up, and limiting cache size to 1GB was essential; apart from the whole SSD/HDD issue).

They've made stupid decisions before and rolled out updates that were unfinished or plain broken. But this time, it's gotten really bad. Check Reddit for a list of all the features they've removed or broken in the past 1-2 months. In most cases promising that they'll return later. This has to have a massive effect on subscription numbers, because it's no longer about people not liking some UI choices, it's about people no longer being able to use Spotify for what it was made to do -- play music.

This tells me that Spotify have released one or several updates that were in no state to be released, with project management and QA totally out of their depth and failing to realise the issues, let alone react accordingly. It also tells me that the whole development process is falling apart because there have been further updates since which didn't fix any of the major bugs -- they didn't even roll back to a previous codebase, which is the first thing you do if an update rollout breaks the product and you can't push a quick fix.

Is this what Agile Development is like? If you can't get a feature finished by the next deadline, you just drop it and it never gets done at all? I feel like a couple of months from now, we'll be able to buy a book containing a post-mortem writeup on Spotify, as a warning on the consequences of grossly mismanaging a major software project.

[Tiger88]

The problem with companies who win too much money,,,,

They drive in ferraris and they do not have now feet on the ground anymore !

The new interface is also not good, everything is black, it looks like a graveyard, the albums columns are gone, it's really not good at all.

[balayzell]

Since this idea apparently cannot receive new kudos, I'll post a new comment instead.  Yes, this feature is an absolute must, I have an SSD drive and I need to move the cache folder to an alternate internal hard drive to save space on my SSD drive.

[sunn]

+1. No way in hell am I paying anything before this is fixed.

[TheCDay]

What is wrong with your company? Why do you try to remove this every other time you patch? 

This will absolutely be the last straw for me. If this is not brought back, and soon I (a paying customer) will move to a competitor and will highly recommend to anyone looking for a music service that they not use you. 

Stop acting like children trying to inflict your paying customers with this BS. Options like this are essential for users to maintain control of their systems and to prevent disk space creep. 

Stop acting like Apple, they barely pull it off and you certainly don't. 

[Arturo_Emillio]

Anyway with the every single update the service get worst and worst. Right now it doesn't work even the music play consistenly. Because of the "connect"  feature you are listenting in PC and then jump the play to the mobile phone. 

Spotify, even that apparently is too much for you. 

The managers in design and development department must be fired ASAP . 

My recomendation: forget Spotify and move on. Don't bother even with the free stuff. There are so many streaming services that actually works much better. Also we always have our media library in our PC like old days.

It seems that Spotify wants to teach a lesson to the record labels by loosing all the costumers. But Spotify seems to miss the point of if they don't provide a good service rigth now there are more companies that provide much better experiencie and will absorb that unhappy paying costumers. 

[fwhipple]

Geeze Spotify, when I first signed-up for your service, you had everything I could think of, perfectly setup.  I was a very happy, paying subscriber.  Now my only relationship with Spotify is ... man, what happened to xyz.  It's broken.  What's up?  I do a search and Spotify intentionally broke their own software.  Over and over again, admid a gazillion complaints on this forum.  Then I see a message -- good news!  We broke it, but we'll fix it REAL SOON NOW, we promise.  But I see that was months ago.  So frustrating.  You'd think Spotify was running with no competition in the marketplace.

BTW, duh, no, I don't want to fill my teeny tiny primary HD with downloaded music.  That's what the SD card is for.  Time to get this one fixed.  

[SubzeroSC]

As I am using Spotify 7 out of the 8 hours of my work day I am having big trouble with the removal of the cache location management. Let me give you some details, I am desktop developer with a machine that has an 120 GB SSD, that SSD is used by the OS and all of the developer programs that I and the IT have installed, after all of those programs are installed I am left with about 10-20 GB of free storage in that SSD. As we all know Windows OS requires to have some what a minimum storage left in the hard drive where the OS is installed to work as expected, this is where the issue with the current version of the Spotify desktop client comes. When I cannot change where the cache music is stored (even from the temporary cache not the 'make available offline') that 10-20 GB free starts getting used making my PC laggy and my work day harder. So what do I currently do I stopped using Spotify.

Please priorities this accordingly as I for example cannot use the service as I used to be able 3 months ago and I am considering alternatives.