Saving to SD Card on Android 6.0 Marshmallow

[Ressei]

Hello everyone,

I'm an owner of a Moto X Style (Moto X Pure in US) and was having trouble saving my albums and playlists to the SD Card storage. I followed the entire android issues guide on SD Cards, but NOTHING worked. Until I went into the App Properties and saw that it did not have any permissions. And then, it clicked. Spotify didn't have Storage permission.

So, I followed the guide again: cleared cache, uninstalled the app, made sure the "com.spotify.music" folder was deleted on both internal and external storages, turned my device off and on again, re-downloaded the app and, before opening it, went to its properties to give storage permissions. What I did afterwards was to manually create the aforementioned folder on the sdcard folder Android/data. Then, logged onto the app, selected extreme quality and, voilá, problem solved!

Hope the mods can add this tip to the guide, to help anyone out there with Marshmallow.

[solaire_]

BTW: There is another discussion with some possible workarounds here.

[Boogiedune]

Thanks man, you help me so much! 😄

[Gencayyy]

Not worked for my M8. 😞

[habylab]

This doesn't work for me sadly. HTC One M8, update came out just last week.

[ricky757]

For the people that are rooted, you can youse Apps2SD's "Folder Mount" option. This allows you to move the Spotify cache folder to your sd card. I can confirm it also works when you save new music offline, it still uses the sd card as storage. This is a good solution until Spotify has figured this problem out.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.co.pricealert.apps2sd&hl=en

Open app
Give it Root permission
Tap Folder Mount

Give it a name, for example: "Spotify" 

Select the Source folder. On the HTC One M8 that is "/storage/emulated/legacy/Android/data/com.spotify.music"

Select the Destination folder. I chose "/storage/55AC-4506(this is my sd cards name)/Android/data"

Select "Delete source folder contents after bind/link

Tap "Ok"

Move the slider next to the name to start the progress. 

Now you can start saving your music to the SD card!

[user-removed]

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[robert_kennedy]

thanks!!!!! it works in motorola x play

[Jayjaydtown]

LG G4 now on Android 6. Spotify crashed at startup. I'm pisst!

[ChrisCross00x · Accepted solution]

"For people with root, I found a solution here, working on my HTC M8 Andoird 6 Marshmallow with root:

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Ongoing-Issues/Android-6-0-Marshmallow-no-SD-Card-download-possible...

Taken from there: 

0) uninstall spotify (just to make sure you start fresh)

1) install spotify

2) launch spotify but do not log in. Go to Settings → Apps → Spotify and Force Stop

3) [Requires Root] Use a file manager (e.g ES File Explorer) to navigate to /data/data/com.spotify.music/shared_prefs/

4) [Requires Root] Edit the file "spotify_preferences.xml" → towards the end, got to  :

<string name="cache_location_v4">/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.spotify.music/files/spotifycache</string>

 and change the path to point to the external SD instead. I just changed the emulated/0 part to the name of the directory where my external SD is mounted. In my case "/storage/ext_sd/Android/data/com.spotify.music/files/spotifycache"

5) Start spotify. (optional: If you do not login, and switch back to the file manager and go to your SD Card/Android/com.spotify.music/ you will see that the directories where created).

6) Login, download a playlist (no need to switch to extreme quality).

7) Enjoy.

[thebest4fifa08]

Hi there,

I'm also on cyanogenmod 13.0 , marshmallow on my Samsung Galaxy G900F!

Have you manager to get it working lastly? Thanks in advance!!

[Fruitjuice]

For anyone interested I've now finally got this to work on an unrooted HTC One M8 recently updated to Android Marshmallow.

I detailed what I did to achieve success here:

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Ongoing-Issues/Android-6-0-Marshmallow-no-SD-Card-download-possible...

[ChrisCross00x]

the solution by "fruitjuice" in the link is not working :-(. People in the other post tried with differnent phones

[12120707104]

Hey MusicLover (ChrisCross00x)

Thanks A LOT for you help, the workaround you shared worked flawlessly in my s5 mini with CM13!

[ironkiken]

THX!

[habylab]

He later retracted what he said!

[slh713]

 ChrisCross00x fixed it! Thank you so much!!!

[ChrisCross00x]

You are welcome, but as i wrote, the solution comes from another thread and we need to thank KimNguyen

I just reposted it.

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Ongoing-Issues/Android-6-0-Marshmallow-no-SD-Card-download-possible...

[Kastermaster]

None of these solutions did the trick for me on a Z3c. Google did a huge f*ck up with the way external storage is treated in Android 6.

[navaira]

Strange, I thought I posted the solution for Z3C, maybe it was another thread... I assume you mean Marshmallow Concept.

1. Uninstall Spotify, delete cache, etc.

2. Format your SD card as "internal" – for some reason it took a few tries for me but finally worked

3. Install Spotify BUT DO NOT RUN IT

4. Go to Apps > Spotify > Permissions and give it storage permission

5. Profit 🙂 (you don't need to use extreme quality)

[jmscaramal]

It worked for me!!!! Thanks man!

i9505 CM13 (Android 6.0.1) - SuperSU 2.66