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.

[undrgrndhp]

See my answer dude!

[washy75]

I have the same issue with Nougat 7.0 Cyanogenmod ROM. Any luck on that front?

[Toonarmybarmy]

This worked for me and needs less messing about than other suggestions

http://jimcofer.com/personal/2016/02/20/spotify-marshmallow-and-sd-cards/

[Aberran]

So you have to root a phone to use the SD Card now?

[emrwilks · Accepted solution]

Fantastic, this worked on my Moto G4. Tried everything and nthing worked before this so must relate to the app (storage) permission. Thanks for sharing.

[DW78]

Hey! Great but a word of advice: Keep a close watch! My G4 works for a
couple of hours, loses the storage and strarts downloading the entire
library to the internal storage again. Not funny...

[user-removed]

Thank you sooooo much! I didn't know what else to do!

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[jac_n]

Worked for me, and I'm on an old Vodafone Smart Prime 6, with Lollipop. Thanks heaps!