[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.

[lihakeiju]

Why dumb down the software when the feature was already there?! I too have a small SSD drive and I absolutely need to set the cache to different location. I'm waiting for one more update and if this isn't fixed I'm out. I've been a subscriber a few months now and even in this time Spotify has managed to conjure up new bugs, oddities and just general bloat.

[MrHorseshoe]

My SSD drive is clogged with the Spotify cache. I want to change the location of the cache. Why is it taking almost a month for such basic functionality to be implemented?

[tornadohun]

Well i have been waiting for 1 month and the "soon fixed" is not a good enough answer for the space hogging and lack of options. You got to inform your customers, the communication is bad. The time has come to move on to another music stream service that WORKS and cancel the sub here. It's a shame really.

[Mardoza21]

Excelent idea. I need that.

[c-MS]

Spotify does not care about us, our whishes or our money! We can threaten

them but they ignore, we can leave them and they fail to notice us at all.

At least they laugh about us!

The only thing we can do is to go around and telling everybody, everywere
to keep distance to Spotify until they are believable and the money worth again!

[byfieldbirds]

there IS a workaorund that I have already posted, maybe in another thread.

Simply use windows juntion points to have a real cache elsewhere on another drive rwith spotitfy still thinking it is on the SSD. use free program steammover.exe to create the juncion point links and move the files if you don't know how.

although it was written for moving games folders it works jsut fine with any folder. takes <5 mins to googles it, download it & set it up & cost nothign to try.

http://www.traynier.com/software/steammover

[c-MS]

We pay a monthly fee for a working system that observed our needs.

Not more than others and you recommend a workaround to compromise

our system for Spotify ? Maybe it works .... but I never invest additional time!

Sorry no.... that's not my job!

Spotify is in the row!

[Matsemannen]

I'm also very upset with this software "upgrade". What the hell are you thinking? Give me the option to change the storage cache damnit!

[Jc84144]

Why on earth was this feature removed? In an attempt to dumb down their software they've made it harder to use. Like others I'm running a setup with a small SSD, and a larger HDD for things like Spotify. For some reason the developers have decided they know better than me in regards  to where the data should be stored. 

The worst part is their own help page is completely out of date, and give us instructions which aren't even possible anymore: https://support.spotify.com/uk/learn-more/faq/#!/article/disk-space-and-bandwidth/?in=search

I don't pay my premium subscription in order to have vital features removed. 

[asorrycommando]

I cancelled my account and started using Google Play's Music service. I had
been a premium member of Spotify since the day you could in the US but now
that they are anti-user, I can't support them anymore.

Also with Google play you can upload thousands of tracks, CHOOSE where they
are downloaded and have just as many artists etc. The interface isn't as
nice but that's it.

My small ssd, huge harddrive and 120 dollars a year are going elsewhere but
all I wanted was to be able to choose where my cache was. Way to go spotify!