Cache on PC over 6gb!!!

[df38]

Plan

Premium

Country

Device

PC

Operating System

Windows 11

My Question or Issue

Looking to clear some space on my PC  I started having a look at the size of all my apps. I was shocked to find the Spotify app taking up over 7gb of space. With a little digging I found the cache and cleared it, and then watched it climb back up right away. I understand that the cache is used to make sure there is no delay in playing songs in the case of network drop off, but from my reading older, less listened to songs are meant to be dropped out of the cache to keep it small, but this is clearly not happening.

Spotify is a 'streaming' service not a 'storage' service, thats the whole point. If you're going to cache every song Ive ever listened to I may as well download them myself.

My question is: How do I permanently stop Spotify from caching anything. I will accept the slight delay in playing to save space on my machine.

[ribezaz]

Hello, and welcome to Spotify Community!

I completely understand your concern. Spotify uses cache to provide faster and more stable playback, especially in unstable connection situations. However, there is currently no official option to completely disable the cache in the app — it is an essential part of how the platform works.

What you can do to better manage the space occupied is:

Clear the cache regularly:

In the Spotify app for PC, go to Settings → Storage → Clear cache.

Change the cache storage location:

You can configure Spotify to store the cache on another drive with more available space (also in Settings → Storage).

Reinstall Spotify periodically:

A clean reinstall helps to eliminate unnecessary files that have accumulated.

💡 Important: Even after clearing, the cache will be replenished automatically as you listen to music. Unfortunately, Spotify does not currently offer a setting to prevent this.

Keep me updated,

Cheers!

Ribezaz

[haywire727-ca]

You cannot change the cache location is settings.  Just the download location.  Now with lossless I want my cache on my spare drive.  Please change this spotify.

[Joan]

Hi @haywire727-ca,

Thanks for the reply.

While the cache and general data of the app will remain in the Spotify app's installation directory, all the data from downloaded offline content will go to the download location, which you can configure as explained by @ribezaz. This will include all the increased space needed from the lossless quality, so we hope you won't have any storage concerns. 

Hope this clears things up. Let us know if you need help with anything else.

[TurkeyTwizler45]

You're seriously complaining about 7GB‽