Internet Usage

[pmullen47]

Hi all,

I'm fairly new to Spotify, and I need a few things clarified because apparently Spotify doesn't have a customer service number I can reach.

I have Spotify premium and have downloaded the majority of my songs onto my iPhone 5 (I think), but I still feel like when I play the music on my phone it's eating away my 3G internet usage. You probably know that you only get a certain amount of internet usage every month and if you go over you get charged. What am I doing wrong? If I download the songs on Spotify onto my hard drive and then sync that up to my phone, am I still using the internet?

Also-can I sync my Spotify library up to my iPhone's library?

Please help. Thank you.

[Liam]

Hi @pmullen47 and welcome to the community 🙂

Firstly, no, I don't know about have a set data limit - I don't 😉

Now, on to the serious bit 🙂

Syncing playlists via the client to a mobile device only syncs local tracks so their available to play on the device. If you don't want internet to be used, you have to download playlists (set available offline to on), and then put the app into offline mode. This won't use any data. Syncing doesn't sync offline tracks (it wouldn't be possible - they're encrypted unique to the device and operating system).

And no, it isn't possible to sync Spotify tracks to your iOS library. The Spotify offline tracks are saved in an encrypted manor (they're also downloaded for streaming like this), and the app 'decrypts' them on the fly to play them back to you.

Liam