Syncing questions

[thorzyleif]

Hi there. Sorry if this has been asked before, but i couldnt find a thread for it:

I just bought a new phone and i want to import my almost 2000 offline synced songs which I have on my SD card. Is there any way to do this? Tried downloading the songs when after installing spotify on the new phone (which i thought might prompt recognizing the synced files) but it just started downloading the songs all over. 

Does anybody know where the files are stored, so that i maybe can transfer them into the right folder on my SD card? 

Thanks !

[Peter__]

Hey! Welcome to the community 🙂 

Unfortunately you will need to redownload them again, Spotify apps encrypt the offline tracks in a way which makes them unique to each device, meaning you can't copy them from one to another directly. 

Peter

[thorzyleif]

Okay.

Do you know how I can delete those synced files on my SD-card then? Since spotify didnt recognize them on my new phone. Tried the "delete cache and save data", but I believe they are still there, seeing half my storage capacity is occupied.

Thanks.

[Joe]

I'd just reformat the card in the phone, uninstall spotify and delete cache then reinstall which should make sure it favours storing music on the external SD card.