How much memory do the offline music in Spotify take up?

[x55e]

I only have 16gb phone so I would like to know how much music it takes up.

[Peter__ · Accepted solution]

Depends on what quality level you are going to sync in, if you assume 4 mins for an average track.

96kbps (normal) - 2.8MB per track
160kbps (high) - 4.7MB per track
320kbps (extreme) - 9.4MB per track

[x55e]

Thank you! Do you happen to know where it saves?

[Daniel]

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@x55e wrote:
Thank you! Do you happen to know where it saves?

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It saves the cache to the volume that had the largest amount of free space when the app was installed... this is usually an SD or Card or ext_sd partition.

[thai2000]

Why is the size of the datafile growing everytime it download new songs. Are there old songs deleted to save place ?

[Peter__]

Spotify should manage the cache on its own, when you un-download something it doesn't immediately delete it in case you did it by accident but it should give the space up given a little time.

[thai2000]

That is not happening. My files get only bigger . I use Spotify now for a few years and EVERY MONTH i have to re-download my offline playlists because my 16 gb SD Card is fully occupied with Spotify data because i use the SD CARD only gor Spotify

[user-removed]

Heeelllooo ! 🙂

Spotify it uses a lot data.

Quality 96 kbps => 0.72 MB per minute. (Only in Mobile these days)
Quality 160 kbps => 1.2 MB per minute. (Free, Unlimited, Premium)
Quality 320 kbps => 2.4 MB per minute. (Only Premium)

Oh, and I like your way!

Greetz and byyyeeee 😎

[thai2000]

Spotify never cleans up my cache file. Yesterday I deleted about 25 songs and my data file was shrinking for bout 50 mb?? . After that the app updated some play list and my data file grows with 300 mb . It has totally all ready more than 5 gb added tot the total size . Why keeps spotify telling that spotify automatic clesns up the cache. Is there some way to do this manually ? Please help .. wsy

[user-removed]

No they never clean up cache I've noticed that. And every time I play a song my MB goes up and up.😩Love the app but not to eat my MB. I have musi and they don't eat my MB no were close to this app does. I was hoping to keep this app. But if figure something out soon I Amy not. Very sad.😩

[osornios]

@user-removed

In Android, there's the option to clear the cache through a button in the settings.

In iOS, deleting the app and reinstaling should clear it too.

[Swaggasorus]

The reason the cache is never cleared automatically is likely due to the way Spotify uses each users device as a mini data center. Instead of having a few large servers that exclusively stream data to users, Spotify uses a peer to peer network comprised of their users devices. Thus reducing latency, and data consumption for each individual. Songs are possibly retained in your device so they can be shared to local devices.

You can read about how Spotify works here: http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-spotify-works.html

[osornios]

As far as I can tell, the peer to peer structure only applies to the Desktop version. That's why in the beggining you had to be Premium to use the mobile version, which streams directly from Spotify's servers.

I could be wrong though.

[ShadowNightfall]

So 100 songs... Roughly 1gb

[same_bee]

You can clean up the cache by reinstalling the app