[All Platforms] Setting for max Cache Size Allowance

[Jellybadger]

The android version of Spotify currently doesn't have a setting for how much disk space the cache is allowed to take up, so it just keeps getting larger and larger until the entire drive is full. 

A music streaming app should not need several gigabytes of  drive space. Give us the option to cap this - getting real tired of getting told I'm out of disk space and having to manually wipe it.

[Michaelman11]

The cache is even worse with lossless lol. I'm already at 10gb on day 3, and only have 256gb to work with, putting my phone already at 100gb used. Where is this update Spotify???

[DW74]

How is this not a thing? Especially with lossless now. If I can't set a max cache size, then allow me to set it so that the cache empties when I close the app. I don't know why it's so hard for music streamers to get this. Apple, on android phones strangely enough, allows a max cache size to be set. Or turned off completely. Wish they did that on their NATIVE OS.

[prodchou]

please bring in this feature 😭😭😭 if i turn off offline access i can't listen to the downloads i choose, but if i turn it on spotify just keeps autodownloading 12 hours worth of songs i don't even listen to in lossless until all the space in my phone is filled...

[abcdefghijklmnopqr69]

its been 7 years lol

[MaxFriedermann]

almost 5 years since this was passed along to the internal teams, Spotify; where's the fix?

[DW74]

My sub is running out in April. I am not re-upping. On iOS, both Youtube Music and Apple music do a fine job of maintaining and curtailing their cache sizes. I can just play music all day, all night, and not have to worry about my storage getting filled up by cached files. I would still prefer to use Spotify, as it's the superior app. But other services have done a lot of catching up over the years. You guys should listen to your customers instead of sitting on an idea as simple as this one for 5 stinking years.

[marcellsugar]

Having to clear 20gb of cache every other day with the lossless update is simply just ridiculous. Spotify, do better! It's such a simple idea, but would save a lot of hassle. Why do users have to manage the cache, why isn't it automatic. Not so tech savvy people might not even know what cache is, and potentially having 50+ gb slowing down our devices is unacceptable IMHO.

[error9900]

This is a recurring issue for me... Please let us set a limit!

[PaulMac]

I have a limited amount of available free space on my android phone (around 30 GB available on a 128 GB Samsung Galaxy S24FE).  

The Spotify cache eats up this space at an alarming rate, far more than every other app combined. I've tried other music streaming platforms and none of them come even close to Spotify.

The last update on the idea from Spotify  states they are 'aware of the vote count and popularity of this idea. We'll continue to monitor and check out the comments here, too.' 

Well, we have been posting away about it now for over 9 years and Spotify have simply ignored it all. Please Spotify, pull the finger out of your ar#se and do something about it. 

[celsoft]

Back a while ago, Spotify increased their monthly fees, as if Mr. Ek was
penniless on the street. I wasn't impressed at this, so I got a great idea.
Quit Spotify, and put my monthly contribution into YouTube Pro (or is it
Prime?), which also covers YouTube Music Pro. Porting all my playlists
over to YouTube Music was/is as easy as pi. I watch YouTube videos quite a
bit, and having to put up with being bombarded with BS ads drove me crazy,
but NOW I don't have to watch any BS ads on YouTube, AND I can play my
music playlists ad-free as well. The user interface is not quite as good as
Spotify, but who cares - the music is ad free.