Spotify Download Very Slow

admin

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.

I use a Pi3 model B in a typical installation (Hifiberry, Squeezybox server). I try Spotify Connect and Spotty for Squeezebox, but both is very slow. When I start a music or step next track, it has a 6-8-10 sec. If I stop or start the current track it has no delay. I check the system load, CPU is below 2%, and no significant load on the. Spotify has slowed to a snails pace at downloading songs to my iphone 4s. I made sure that I didn't have it set to EXTREME sound quality and still it is VERY slow almost painful to even use. Will have to reconsider using Spotify if this keeps up.

Hello, I am downloading all my offline playlist to my PC aswell now (1490 songs), but I feel like the download is going really slow. Sitting at 200 songs now I estimated the download to take 1.5 hours overall (I have 50 mbit/s download, music is in extreme quality) Are the filesized that large. Oct 23, 2017 Why Are My Spotify Songs Buffering Very Slow? High quality audio like Spotify delivers is data intensive. Spotify uses the latest hardware and software to make sure it delivers the music as fast as possible, but your device may not have the bandwidth to effectively stream Spotify. It is the lack of bandwidth that causes the Spotify buffering. Now you can follow the steps to solve the Spotify slow streaming issue. Step 1 Import Spotify music You can drag & drop the Spotify song, playlist or album to the DRmare software easily. Step 2 Choose new output format. A step-by-step guide to fixing a slow Spotify desktop app on Mac or PC. Note: In many situations, a slow hard drive is the most likely culprit for a slow Spotify app; I strongly recommend upgrading to a solid state drive (SSD), which can greatly improve overall performance.Also, if manually deleting your cache in the method this post suggests does not work, reinstalling Spotify may help clear.

Spotify Slow To Open

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.

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

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.
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.

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.

End of line.

Binary Blogger has spent 20 years in the Information Security space currently providing security solutions and evangelism to clients. From early web application programming, system administration, senior management to enterprise consulting I provide practical security analysis and solutions to help companies and individuals figure out HOW to be secure every day.

Subscribe
Facebook Page
Follow Me On Twitter
contactme@binaryblogger.com

Download

Here you can find different ways of installing Spotify for Linux. Spotify for Linux is a labor of love from our engineers that wanted to listen to Spotify on their Linux development machines. They work on it in their spare time and it is currently not a platform that we actively support. The experience may differ from our other Spotify Desktop clients, such as Windows and Mac. You can tell us what you think and ask other users for help at theDesktop (Linux) boardin The Spotify Community forum.

Install on Ubuntu

Go to Spotify in Ubuntu Software and click install. If the link doesn’t work, open Ubuntu Software and search for Spotify.

Install via command line

Snap

Spotify Slow Down Song

If you don’t have access or don’t want to use Ubuntu Software, it is possible to install Spotify from the command line with snap. Run the following command in your terminal:

Spotify Slow Music

If you run another Linux distribution than Ubuntu, first seehttps://snapcraft.io/ for how to install snap, then run the command above.

Spotify Download Very Slow

Debian / Ubuntu

Spotify for Linux is also released as a Debian package. Our aim is that it should work with the latest Long Term Support release of Ubuntu, but we will try to make it work for other releases of Ubuntu and Debian as well.

You will first need to configure our debian repository:

Then you can install the Spotify client: