Brief description of the issue: when booting the phone, Spotify "forgets" it was configured to use the SD card for storage and fallbacks to internal storage. All previously downloaded music is lost when setting the app to use the SD card again. The same does not happen with other apps that use the SD card heavily, like BeyondPod.

My guess is that the issue affects Android phones where mounting the SD card is delayed or takes some time. I started experiencing this when moving from a Samsung S7 Edge to an S8.

The problem is verified even when the user waits for the notification that the SD card was mounted before launching Spotify for the first time. Perhaps there are Spotify bits running in the background and having a knee **bleep** reaction when not finding the SD card in place.

The fact that other apps that use the SD card heavily are not affacted - like BeyondPod - suggest that this is a Spotify-specific bug.

Steps to reproduce the issue: use an encripted 256Gb SD card for Spotify's storage on a Samsung S8, download some music, reboot the phone, wait for the notification that the SD card was mounted correctly, launch Spotify and 1) Spotify has rolled back to use the phone's internal memory, and 2) all downloaded music is wiped out.

Your device and operating system: Samsung Galaxy S8, Android 7.0, Samsung Experience version 8.1, kernel version 4.4.13-11341572, build no. NRD90M.G950FXXU1AQEB

Type of Spotify account you have: Premium

The app version of Spotify you’re using: 8.4.4.810 armV7 , but I've been experiencing the issue for several weeks now