Plan

Premium

Country

USA

Device

Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G

Operating System

Android 11

My Question or Issue

I tell Spotify to download my offline songs to my SD card.  It does it, and everything is OK for a few days.  Then i notice that Spotify is re-downloading my songs, but to internal storage.  This is a problem because it will max out my internal storage.

I've been in touch with Spotify help, who told me my SD card was probably bad. I didn't agree, but I bought a new one, anyway. Never used it for anything else other than to put it in my phone. Same issue.

My most recent experience is that I downloaded all my songs last week and everything was fine for a few days. Then today I just noticed Spotify is once again downloading all my songs to my internal storage, and i checked Spotify's permissions and the storage permissions were set to "Deny." This is weird because i KNOW they were set to "Allow management of all files" before because I checked it and that's the only way Spotify would have downloaded my files to my SD card in the first place.

Here are some details:

-- downloading almost 6K songs

-- SD card is SanDisk Class 10 500GB. Brand new.

-- Internal storage is 128gb (why pay for internal storage when you can have a lot of external storage for much cheaper?)

-- Spotify and OS are updated to most recent version

-- Not using the SD card for any other apps right now (usually I put my photos on it, too, but I stopped doing that just to see if it was affecting Spotify).

-- i've uninstalled and reinstalled Spotify many times while trying to resolve this.

Spotify Help tells me I may need to delete my account and create a new one. I can't see why that would solve anything.

Any ideas? Thanks.