Offline playlists still consume data

[Peter123456789]

I have playlists completely synced to my iphone. When I play them they still load (partly?) from the internet. This is a problem on roaming. 

When I go offline they dont use internet, but I cannot use any other spotify functions. 

Always switching online/offline is not a smart solution. Please prevent offline playlists from using internet, or give a setting which would allow us to do that. 

Other spotify functions should remain working so I dont want to use offline mode.

Thanks

Peter

[Marco]

Hmm, actually I thought this bug was fixed a while ago.

I've moved your topic over here in the help section since this shouldn't happen with the newest version.

Maybe @Peter__ knows how to go from here. 😉

[Peter__]

How much data usage are we talking?

When online, even listening to offline playlists Spotify will consume some data to report track plays to Spotify, scrobble to Facebook and last.fm, check your playing devices with Spotify Connect and download album/cover artwork which can use a bit of data.

[EZlisten]

The loading of artwork should mos def be optional, preferrably the other data consuming processes should be too.

[Peter123456789]

hello thanks for your replies. It was about 50-100 MB for 20 songs. It is not much, but on roaming it is a lot! Please could you implement a setting which would prevent all data use when listening to offline playlists? (or at least to limit it to for example 5 MB for 100-200 songs)

Actually we can already prevent this by either setting spotify in offline mode (than I can use only very limited functions and need to switch it on and off, which is not good if I switch between home / roaming network each week) or iphone airplane mode (which is also useless).

Thanks

Peter

[Peter123456789]

Hi what do you think about implementing this setting?

Peter

[Peter__]

Just so I understand (to have a search through the ideas database), you want a setting to force offline mode when roaming?

[jeremygoh]

For ultimate offline - it's gotta be settings -> offline mode, isn't it?

[Peter123456789]

Hello

I didnt mean the classic offline mode. When I am abroad listening to OFFLINE playlists I would like to prevent any data download by spotify itself, however I still want to be able to search in the databases and mainly I want to see and edit my playlists. Which should only consume few data? 

Also it would be fine to have a setting to enable this "data saving mode" always when I am on roaming.

Do you think it´s possible? 

Thanks

PEter

[Peter123456789]

Hi what do you think about implementing this setting?

Peter

[DannyWestside]

Try putting your phone in airplane mode

[Micho20]

Its happening again!! Lost half on my cellular data!