Spotify is my favorite and most used service I have, even more than TV and streaming services. Everyday I use Spotify whether I am in the car, working in the office, cooking, chores, and anytime I want tunes Spotify is on. No software or service is without its flaws and nuances but one issue got to a point I needed to address it. That issue was with the desktop app from Spotify.

Over time the desktop app became slower and slower, less responsive to the point of taking minutes to load one playlist. Uninstalling completely and reinstalling worked for a short time but eventually the app would degrade to that level of poor performance. That told me it wasn’t my machine but something with the app.

Spotify is a digital music service that gives you access to millions of songs. Spotify is all the music you’ll ever need. Skip to content. Spotify Click the install file to finish up. If your download didn't start, try again. Bring your music to mobile and tablet, too.

I searched for solutions and if others had the same problem and found may posts that did but no good solutions that worked. Until I came across a lone post with complicated steps. I went through those and those worked well.

The problem comes down to the cache management of the Spotify app. Overtime the cache files grow to a size that passed efficiency to the point of being very large and therefore more difficult the computer to use them without expending more memory and processing which becomes counter-productive. The solution is to clear out the cache files and then set a configuration setting in the Spotify setup files to cap the cache size to not bloat.

Spotify app songs disappeared. All of my songs have disappeared too, apart from the ones I've added in the last 7 days. I've tried logging out and back in but there is no change, the songs are also missing from the mobile app. All the songs were there when I used spotify last night.

This post is to simplify those steps for both MacOS and Windows.

Turn off spotify download. I have a phone without external memory card, but I have a good data plan. So I do not want to download music to the phone. However, it insists on downloading and will eventually fill up the phone's internal memory. In my account, I have removed the phone from synchronized devices (from the PC). On the phone itself, I have ticked off line music. Spotify is a digital music service that gives you access to millions of songs. Spotify is all the music you’ll ever need. Skip to content. Spotify Click the install file to finish up. If your download didn't start, try again. Visit the Microsoft Store to download. Bring your music to mobile and tablet, too. Listening on your phone or tablet is free, easy, and fun. If you don't have a good mobile connection or you want to save data, you can download the episodes while on WiFi and turn on Offline Mode. You'll then be able to listen to the audio of the podcast with only the app being offline. No need to turn on Airplane mode. Download Spotify song or playlist with Siri Shortcuts. If you are using an iOS device, you probably.

Spotify Cache Delete

MacOS

1. Close Spotify if running. Open Finder.
2. Under the Go menu option select Go To Folder. (Shift–Command-G)
3. Type in or paste this ~/Library/Caches/com.spotify.client/
4. Click Go or hit Enter on the keyboard.
5. In this folder you should see a Browser folder, Data, fsCachedData and other files. Delete all the contents. Command-A to select all, move to trash.
6. Go back to the Finder. Same as Step 2 and 3 go to folder ~/Library/Application Support/Spotify/
7. In this folder, look for a file called perfs.
8. Open perfs in a text editor.
9. Add the text in bold at the end of the file. This will limit the cache to 1024MN or 1GB. You can set this to whatever you want but this will cap the cache and not let it grow to an unlimited size. storage.size=1024
10. Save the file.
11. Delete the PersistentCache folder.

What Is Spotify Cache

Windows

1. Note <your username> is your windows login. Go to the folder C:Users<your username>AppDataLocalSpotify.
2. Delete these folders – Browser, Storage and Data.
3. Go to the C:Users<your username>AppDataRoamingSpotify folder.
4. In this folder, look for a file called perfs
5. Open perfs in Notepad or other text editor.
6. Add the text in bold at the end of the file. This will limit the cache to 1024MN or 1GB. You can set this to whatever you want but this will cap the cache and not let it grow to an unlimited size. storage.size=1024
7. Save the file.

https://intolucky.netlify.app/spotify-desktop-app-very-slow.html. Those steps for Mac and Windows should resolve the Spotify desktop performance degradation you are experiencing. It has for me and I wouldn’t waste my time writing this out if it didn’t.

For fun here are my top personal playlists if you are so inclined –

• Baseball Hype Music – Played music for my son’s youth baseball team before and in between innings. This is the playlist.

Clear Spotify Cache Mac

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Spotify Cache Macbook

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