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The more you listen the more accurately Spotify identifies what else you might be interested in.

Spotify makes it easy too, suggesting you radio, playlists, releases, and more > all based on your preferences. Since the service has signed agreements with every major label, you can find any songs or albums pretty much since the start of music recording, from the Beatles to Lil Wayne.

The library of songs is enormous and updated daily with all the new releases. Still dont recommend without further testing)Īll in all this might mean that there is still some more work to do to really softlimit the storage usage.Spotify has a lot of things going for it. (In my case 174MiB - deleting this folders content doesnt seem to harm, it gets rebuild. I checked the %localappdata%\Packages\SpotifyAB.SpotifyMusic_xxxxxxxxxxxxx folder for possible subfolders wich are now 512MiB in size and found %localappdata%\Packages\SpotifyAB.SpotifyMusic_xxxxxxxxxxxxx\LocalCache\Spotify\Data to be viable.Īfter setting storage.size=256 the folder %localappdata%\Packages\SpotifyAB.SpotifyMusic_xxxxxxxxxxxxx\LocalCache\Spotify\Data got reduced to ~256MiB.īut folders like %localappdata%\Packages\SpotifyAB.SpotifyMusic_xxxxxxxxxxxxx\LocalCache\Spotify\Browser were left with there original size. Meaning, it doesnt look like this setting effects all save-paths. I did the test and set storage.size=512 and it reduced the usage to 810MiB.

Since last month my storage usage grew to 1.32 GiB.

To verify, check the size of the Data folder in the following directory ~/Library/Caches//.

The cache should be reduced not exceeding the size that you entered.

Open Finder and press ⇧ + ⌘ + G or Open Spotlight (⌘ + Spacebar) and paste the following into the address bar ~/Library/Application Support/Spotify.

¤ For the App-Version of Spotify on Windows 10 use %localappdata%\Packages\SpotifyAB.SpotifyMusic_xxxxxxxxxxxxx\LocalState\Spotify instead of %appdata%/Spotify, credit to MacĪpple TextEdit.app works fine to open "prefs" or one can use some similar code editing program

To verify, check the size of the Data folder in the following directory %localappdata%/Spotify.

The cache should be reduced not exceeding the size that you entered.

In the end, it should look something like this storage.size=1024 If storage.size= doesn't exist add it manually to the end of the file and assign numeric value.

Change the numeric value following storage.size=.

Open the file named prefs with your text editor.

Open File Explorer and paste the following into the address bar %appdata%/Spotify¤.

Opening with Notepad may or may not result in a fancy mess Use your text editor of choice or if you don't have one use Windows Notepad