Everyone knows that Spotify uses your device's available memory storage for 2 purposes:
1. To store temporary, or snippets of, music for streaming (i.e. as cache). This means that when you press play, you hear the music immediately with few interruptions.
2. To store downloaded music if you listen offline (Premium only). Even though you never told Spotify to download these song, it saves them anyway as your streaming them so that if you ever play that song in the future, it will play them from the cache. This reduces the stress on their servers, meaning they don't have to have as big as a infrastructure, and they make more profit. They encrypt it because they don't want you walking off with the songs.
The local Spotify folder ends up gathering a huge trove of junk data whenever it is used. Users have even reported about the Spotify folder going on to be as voluminous as 10 GB in size, which is quite shocking as it is only there for saving song cache.
Over time, there is no need to keep the whole Spotify Cache files, and your hard drive will be filled up quickly. You can't select the earlier Spotify Cache to delete and only keep the recent ones. What you can do is clear all of them and then build a new one from now on. And your computer will run smoother.
(Windows users can find it under Edit, while Mac users can find it under Spotify.) Then scroll down to Local Files and select ADD A SOURCE. With the folder added, any unrestricted music contained within will be immediately imported into the Spotify library. Fortunately, Spotify offers an option for users to add local files to Spotify library on your computer. As result, you can freely play not only Spotify tracks but also your own music files on Spotify desktop and mobile app. Now, let's see the detailed tutorial to upload music to Spotify for playback. Add Local Files to Spotify Desktop. Change the Spotify cache size. To change the size of the cache do the following: Open the Spotify client on your system. This example uses the Windows client. Click on Edit Preferences or use the Ctrl-P shortcut to open the program options. Scroll all the way down until you find the cache entry here. Delete Local-files.bnk. Spotify stores the location of your local music files in this file named as local-files.bnk. Deleting it often fixes the local files not showing problem. Here is how you can find the file and then delete it – First, open the Spotify app and go to your account settings from the top right corner. Then scroll down.
Follow the next guide you will learn how to clear Spotify cache on Windows and Mac.
Guided walkthrough on how you can add any song or album you have locally (even Apple music exclusives) on Spotify and then play them on your computer and/or your mobile iOS and Android devices.
Delete Spotify Cache and 'Local File' Cache on Windows
Open Windows Explorer and paste the following line to the folder address bar:
C:UsersUSERNAMEAppDataLocalSpotifyStorage
Replace 'USERNAME' with your Windows login username. Note that this folder is hidden by default, so you have to use the direct link to reach the cache folder. (Alternatively, you can go into the Settings and turn on 'Show Hidden Files, Folders and Drives.')
Delete all the files in this folder.
Open a terminal and type:
sudo rm -fr /Users/USERNAME/Library/Caches/com.spotify.client/Storage/*
Replace 'USERNAME' with your login username.
Once you have cleared the cache, the next time you run Spotify, it will re-cache the songs to your system. https://freaknew725.weebly.com/blog/can-you-keep-your-playlists-with-free-spotify. You might want to go to the 'Preferences - Cache' section to change the maximum cache size that it can use.
Change the way to store Spotify Music
As Spotify Free users, they can't download Spotify songs to play them offline. And If they want to store Music to other places so as to play them without limitation. This look great.
Macsome Spotify Downloader makes this come true. With its help, users can easily convert Spotify Music songs or playlists to MP3, AAC, FLAC and WAV format. https://freaknew725.weebly.com/blog/download-music-mp3-from-spotify.
After the conversion, users can copy these converted music files as they wish and they can also play them on Sony PSP, iRiver, Android phones and so on.
Spotify is great as long as you don’t hit a bump with some sync problem. Oh, there’s the issue of your premium account not getting activated (or recognized in mobile), but that’s often just a server glitch.
If local files from your Mac or PC don’t get synced with Spotify and instead, Spotify shows you ‘similar’ tracks that you can download instead, that’s going to be one big headache. This usually happens when you have music tracks with metadata that’s way too similar to the ones Spotify has on its server.
Why does this happen? The issue crops up mostly when you’ve got fan-versions of a popular song, or remixes and other modifications that leave pretty much of the metadata intact. This makes Spotify think that you’re trying to upload a song that’s already up there and so, it prevents sync and offers to let you grab the cloud versions.
Too bad, eh. But there’s a quick fix.
This is what you should try if Spotify not syncing Local Files to iPhone:
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(make sure you use the same account on Spotify for your Mac/PC as well as for your iPhone)
Step 1. First, connect both your PC/Mac and your iPhone to the same Wi-Fi network.
Step 2. Now, open iTunes on your PC/Mac and you should find your iDevice listed under the Devices tab on the sidebar.
Step 3. Create a new playlist from your system (on the device) and place one of the local files into this.
Step 4. Open Spotify on your iPhone and then select the newly created playlist.
Step 5. Enable “Available Offline.”
Step 6. You’ll now see a progress icon right beneath the song you’ve got on the playlist. This will get the song from the cloud to your Spotify app.
Step 7. That’s about it.
When you add more songs to this playlist, they get synced. Make sure you don’t turn off the offline sync feature.
Note that there’s a limit to the number of offline songs you can have on your device (each).
That’s all folks!
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