Android

[rodrig0lima]

The problem is that sometimes we don't want to download everything again, it may take a lot of time. And it should not be needed, the software should delete these songs automatically.

[colewunderlich]

I have the same problem too. Unoffline a song, but no space frees up. This really shouldn't be an issue.

[toweliegetshi]

This is literally the most annoying thing ever, please fix this spotify

[1231101686]

Same frustrating issues, this needs to be fixed!

[stiv3n2000]

Spotify folk.... please help us with this. 13GB of music is killing my 32GB note4. Why doesnt the cached files reduce when I've 'undownloaded' them weeks ago

[hectoroalvarez]

i though that was only my smartphone, well, i have the same issue. Maybe if an "undowloaded time" is included in settings section could solve the problem.

it has to be easy to remove single songs that i don't want to be offline anymore, and not doing it by removing everything else and download it again

[youngjudik]

OF COURSE IT WORKS....THATS WHAT WE ARE ALL TRYING TO AVOUD DOING

[gcorvera]

HI,

I had the same problem, I used Clean Master, a free app, to erase all downloaded files (it's an option under "Advanced Cleaning"), and could recover the used space immediately. After doing this, Spotify took a few seconds to get to the home screen, but all my playlists were there, and all downloads were gone.

Of course, that means that you have to redownload those lists or songs you really wand.

I think there should be an option on the spotify app, to clear space inmediately.

[tonnenschwer]

Guys is there any solution from Spotify side?

The used data of spotify increases and increases even though I'm often removing unwanted offline playlists, which SHOULD RELEASE space on my sdcard!

It is SO annoying. If it keeps going like this, I guess we'd have to cancel our spotify subscription.

[mcguinness_ryan]

Still a problem. This shouldn't be hard to fix Spotify!

[kst111]

@qwertz182: Your workaround actually works for me. Deleting all application data is actually not as bad as it sounds, because "stored" songs and your playlists survive in the "cloud" and are available as soon as you log in again. I will occasionally do this in order to keep my phone's memory clean. Thanks!

[groberschnitzer]

I'm quite new to spotify premium and ran into this problem recently.

I'm very disappointed that there is no solution yet, apparently this problem exists for years now...

[ianfc]

So there is still no solution to this problem?  Despite unselecting 'Download' from half my albums none of them are removed from the cache and so I am unable to replace these albums with new downloads as Spotify tells me I am at my download limit.  This seems pretty basic to fix and yet the problem appears to have existed for years.  We have a download switch that only works in one direction - it downloads but doesn't remove the downloads when you swipe it back.  If you aren't going to resolve this issue then I suggest you rename the button 'Eternal Download That Can Never Be Reversed'.

[Kantana]

I'll hop on and say that I'm also experiencing the same thing. Furiously annoying!

I had the Release Radar playlist saved, and as people have already described with Discover Weekly, it seemed to just keep adding to the used space. When I finally wiped all the local data, more space was freed than what Spotify said it was using in its own Storage menu. I'm not sure, but that might indicate that the songs that were previously on the playlist weren't counted by Spotify, but still actually occupied space on my phone.

I'm not 100% on this, but at least that's what I think I saw.

[kst111]

I start to understand why Spotify does this (i.e. leaves the songs on the mobile phones when the songs are un-selected). When playing around with my song library, I toggled off and on the "Download" option in my "All songs" list. If the app freed all the memory immediately, this switching back and forth would have caused 3 GB of additional download traffic on the Spotify servers. With the songs left in my memory the app simply marked the songs as "offline songs", with no additional internet traffic caused.

[nipunajay3]

Isn't it easier to prompt users with "Are you sure?". Because I'd think most of the time user are sure they don't want the songs and they don't want those songs taking up space. I have "offline" playlists that change on a regular basis. When I add new songs, they get auto-saved for offline. Fantastic! But when I remove songs from the playlist, they still stay on, and then as I keep adding more newer songs to the playlist, these get saved for offline play, eventually taking up a huge amount of space, most of it occupied by older songs that I no longer want offline. This is a major issue for me, because I signed up for premium thinking I could control exactly what songs are saved for offline play easily.

[nipunajay3]

Isn't it easier to prompt users with an "Are you sure?". Because I'd think most of the time user are sure they don't want the songs and they don't want those songs taking up space. I have "offline" playlists that change on a regular basis. When I add new songs, they get auto-saved for offline. Fantastic! But when I remove songs from the playlist, they still stay on, and then as I keep adding more newer songs to the playlist, these get saved for offline play, eventually taking up a huge amount of space, most of it occupied by older songs that I no longer want offline. This is a major issue for me, because I signed up for premium thinking I could control exactly what songs are saved for offline play easily.

[user-removed]

They should really add an option to the menu which allows us to instantly delete all undownloaded songs, the files are not getting deleted even after a few weeks and deleting the whole cache is stupid if you have 10+ GB of songs you want to keep...

[pablo0407]

Same here, I was subscribed to Google play music before and it has an option in the app to manage your downloaded music, and deleting the albums or playlists in fact free up space.
I'm very disappointed with Spotify right now. The streaming service is better in my opinion but app design and functionality are really bad.

[PadawanLondon]

Same issue here. I had to force clear all data used by Spotify and redownload all songs to be able to free up space on my Nexus 5X. Unacceptable...