Major I/O write bytes on the Spotify Desktop app. It will kill SSD drives in record time (fixed)

[MinionMan74]

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EDIT: According to Spotify this issue has been fixed in the 1.0.42 version so the case has been closed. Personally I have no more issues with this anymore on any computer. Thanks everyone for making this happen !!!

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original post:
Major disk write activity detected on the Windows/Mac app. Does not behave like that when using the browser player.

Please look into this thread, more details there:
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Linux-Windows-Web-Player/Spotify-killing-my-SSD/m-p/1365378

Attached readouts from a Win7/64 PC during one hour and ten minutes. No offline playlist syncs and zero songs were played during that hour, only the spotify app tray active in background!

No disk drive, SSD or standard HDD can take that rate for a long period of time.

PLEASE ADDRESS THIS ISSUE ASAP OR BE THE NEXT SAMSUNG NOTE !!!

[olivertappin]

Why is this closed? What's the status on this issue? It was opened 4 weeks ago and hope that if it's been closed it's been sorted.

[MinionMan74]

Please read the comments from Spotify right below on the issue, this has been fixed. Finally.

[lvillalba1982]

how can i find that information on my PC,? to delete them, thanks

[Chris__s]

Thank you for bringing this issue to our attention. As some of you have noted, the prior version of the Spotify desktop client may sometimes have caused unnecessary data to be written to storage devices. This issue has been fixed in the current version of the desktop client (1.0.42), released November 11th, and rolled out to all our users. If you try to run an older version, you will see it automatically restart and update to the new version shortly after you log in.

If for some reason you should encounter problems with the auto update, just follow these steps to perform a full reinstall.

Again, we greatly appreciate your help here, and hope that you will continue to flag issues for us when they arise.

[Daniman]

What happens with the Windows XP users!!!???

[Daniman]

What happens with the Windows XP users!!!???

[tebruno99]

wow, this issue was fixed several days ago. Is nobody reading the
threads anymore?

[marcinm]

no.1.0.42 does not fix the problem!!!

[jor3ka]

@marcinmsure is fixed.

88.4 MB in 16 hours, been listening for a few songs and then mostly been idle.

[Chris__s]

Thank you for bringing this issue to our attention. As some of you have noted, the prior version of the Spotify desktop client may sometimes have caused unnecessary data to be written to storage devices. This issue has been fixed in the current version of the desktop client (1.0.42), released November 11th, and rolled out to all our users. If you try to run an older version, you will see it automatically restart and update to the new version shortly after you log in.

If for some reason you should encounter problems with the auto update, just follow these steps to perform a full reinstall.

If you're running a deprecated OS (Windows XP, Vista; OS X 10.7, 10.8), don't worry. A fix has automatically been rolled out to you too. To ensure you're running this version, just close/reopen the desktop app twice.

Again, we greatly appreciate your help here, and hope that you will continue to flag issues for us when they arise.