Summary

Is Spotify taking up a huge chunk of your storage space?

We’ll walk you through each one.

These cache files contain anything from portions of songs to album art and playlist content.

The home screen of the Spotify Mobile app

Their purpose is to help Spotify load content faster and give you a speedy and reliable listening experience.

If that’s the case for you, it’s time todelete your Spotify cache.

Where are Spotify Downloads Stored?

The Spotify ‘Your Library’ tab

One of thebest things about being a Spotify Premium useris that you candownload songs for offline listening.

Any songs you download are stored on your machine’s internal storage (or SD card).

This will bring up all your downloaded albums and playlists.

The Spotify ‘Your Library’ tab

snag the album or playlist you want to remove.

Tap on the green download icon.

To remove all your downloads in one go, press your profile photo.

The Spotify Album page of Benson Boone’s ‘Pulse’ with the download button in green indicating it has been downloaded

Select “controls and Privacy.”

Scroll down to the “Storage” section and tap on “Remove All Downloads.”

Confirm that you want to remove all your downloads by tapping the “Remove” button.

The Spotify Mobile app home page

This will remove all the content you’ve downloaded on Spotify.

Your library should appear on the left side of your screen.

tap on the “Downloaded” button to show only your downloads.

The Spotify settings page showing storage information

Tap on the green download button to remove it.

To remove all your Spotify downloads, tap on the profile icon and select “controls.”

Now scroll down to “Storage” and select “Remove All Downloads.”

A dialog box asking for confirmation to delete all downloads

Change the Audio Quality on Spotify

Spotify has a few audio quality options for downloading music.

They are “Low,” “Normal,” “High,” and “Very High.”

There’s also “Automatic,” which adjusts your download quality based on your internet speed.

The Spotify home page on the Desktop app

Next, select “prefs and Privacy.”

Scroll down till you reach the “Audio Quality” section.

To adjust the download audio quality, tap on the downward-pointing triangle next to “Download.”

The Spotify ‘Your Library’ section on the desktop app

Select “Low.”

Your songs will now download at “Low” quality and use less storage space.

Scroll down to “Download” in the “Audio Quality” section.

The Spotify ‘Your Library’ section on the desktop app with the ‘downloaded’ button highlighted indicating that it is filtering the results

punch the downward pointing arrow and select “Low.”

Now, all your subsequent downloads will use less storage space.

Any changes you make to your download quality will only affect the songs you downloadaftermaking the change.

The Release Radar Playlist with the download button in green indicating it has been downloaded

Any songs you’ve previously downloaded will remain unaffected.

The Spotify account options on the desktop app

The Remove all downloads button in the Spotify settings

The Spotify home page on the mobile app

Spotify account options on the mobile app

Spotify audio settings on the mobile app

Spotify audio settings on the mobile app

Spotify account options on the dektop app

Spotify audio settings on the dektop app