Issue with storage option switching from SD Card to internal

[haydnrb7]

Plan

Premium

Country

US 

Device

Moto X4

Operating System

Android Pie

My Question or Issue

 This happened with my last phone, Samsung S7 running Oreo (or whatever the most recent OS is) but it was fixed when I got the Moto X4. I like to keep a lot of songs downloaded offline because my service is terrible and I also spend a lot of time in the mountains. Before I I update my phone to the new Android Pie OS there was no problems. Now everytime I reset my phone I think spotify cannot see my SD card at first and tries to download all the music to its internal storage and I have to go back in and tell it to store it in the SD card. That is extremely annyoing but not the end of the world. What is really frustrating is that I think all of the downloaded songs are still on the SD card and just keep redownloading and taking up space. Eventually this will cause me to reformat the card which will be a major pain for me since I store a large amount of photos on there also. Is anyone else have this problem? I have already uninstalled and reinstalled the application so any other suggestions or help?

[declandevine]

This works:

https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/howto-fix-songs-on-external-sd-card-lost-after-reboot-on-samsung-...

[ngordo4]

I followed the clean reinstall instructions and I am still having the same issue. When I first install Spotify it uses my SD card. Then after I reboot my phone it switches to internal storage. How do I keep it on my SD card after my phone reboots? 

[ebal58]

I'm from the Philippines and I have this issue also. I tried everything, even reformatting my SD card. Every time I restart my phone, Spotify reverts back to the default storage and re-downloads all my saved music. It wasn't an issue before, mine only happened during the latest updates of Spotify. It's quite disturbing 'coz every time I go out of my house, I have to make sure everything I've downloaded are really in my phone. Updates are supposed to be fixes from previous issues on the app. Hope this will be fixed soon in the coming months 'coz I'm really trying to be 'loyal' here with Spotify and not transfer to Apple Music. Spotify playlists for me are way 'more arranged and organized' and the music in their playlists carefully grouped together in their proper genre. This is by experience when I used the trial version of the competition before and compared it. My many years of Spotify usage will not easily make me transfer to another app I've used only in a month's trial. Albeit this current issue, I will likewise still patiently wait until the HIFI version of Spotify comes.

[ri-5c4yo2_k0h]

I'm having this same issue nearly 3 years later on a note 20. How is this issue marked solved if it still persists? Is there an actual solution other than "the team is aware"?

[ri-5c4yo2_k0h]

Another year, another no solution. 

[Jmatteis_ca]

I don't think that spotify is REdownloading all the music to the SD card after I switch it again, as I notice that if I play a song already on my Sd card after a restart, even on mobile, as soon as I play it, the checkmark goes green.  So it's there, it just has to reference it, as well, when I restart and switch back to SD, I find that it "downloads' the songs very fast, so again I think it just reinstates the LINK to where the song is, as it's still on the SD card.  After multiple restarts and changing storage location to SD card, I have not noticed any loss of space to songs being downloaded again

[JKB314]

STILL an issue! I'm redownloading my travel playlist to my phone right now!

[mustardkid]

Maybe the issue has been resolved. The original problem was that on restart
Spotify would switch storage from SD card to phone memory and redownload
the entire library to phone memory. It would make sense that the Spotify
gui would represent reinstating the SD card as a download.

[Jmatteis_ca]

Oh, I don't think it's resolved, for my part I was saying that the songs on my SD card, once I get the storage location switched over, there is only one instance of the downloads, or the songs are still there, but Spotify app goes through and confirms the path after I switch it.

I have mine set to download over wifi, so I wonder if I turned off wifi, before a restart if that would stop the process of it auto downloading and then I can go in and switch to SD card before turning on wifi again?  

Last restart when I tried to transfer over the data, the first time I got an error saying that the SD card was not ready etc.  A few minutes later, after the phone showed that the SD card was mounted it worked no problem.

[FredFrost]

Same issue with Note 20 and Tab S7+. Fixed multiple internal memory notifications on storage but still no luck on having Spotify revert to internal memory every time Samsung product is restarted. You then have to uninstall Spotify, reload it, then select SD card for downloads and download all over again. Total pain and time consuming. The problem has gone unanswered forever.