If you are losing space on your C: drive and you don’t know why, it might be your Spotify cache slowly eating up your free space. It might take quite a few GBs even as much as 8GB+ of your storage space. Let’s learn how to limit Spotify cache size on your Windows 10 PC.
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All you need is a text editor to edit/add a line of code/property to the prefs file and the location of the prefs file, that depends on what app you are using – Windows Store App or Regular Desktop app.
You can use Notepad, Notepad++ or VS Code to edit the file
Windows Store App
The location of the prefs file:
C:Users<Username>AppDataLocalPackagesSpotifyAB.SpotifyMusicLocalStateSpotify
To limit the size, add:
storage.size=*desired amount of megabytes*
I chose to limit it to 1000MB so I add:
storage.size=1000
Also, if your Mac is in an environment where clients download large amounts of a wide variety of content, be sure to set the cache size limit high enough. This prevents the content cache from deleting cached data frequently, which may necessitate downloading the same content multiple times, thereby using more internet bandwidth. How to Delete Spotify Cache on Mac. Erasing Spotify cache requires you to take a few additional steps and explore Finder. And, in case you’re wondering, clearing cache does not affect your playlists, local files, or your favorite music saved on Spotify — all of these are still going to be available after cache is cleared. In the Preferences pane, you can change the size of the cache that Spotify uses. Spotify’s default setting specifies that the cache size can never be larger than 10 percent of free disk space, which gives you plenty of room to store tracks without eating into your remaining hard drive space.
Mac Spotify Cache Size Chart
Now just save it or press Ctrl+S, reopen your Spotify and your cache size will shrink to closely match the one you have entered.
Now it will always limit the cache size automatically.
Mac Spotify Cache Size Windows 7
Regular Desktop App
Same as the above, but the location for prefs is now in:
C:Users<Username>AppDataRoamingSpotifyprefs
So this is how to limit Spotify cache size on Windows 10 PC.
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