Downloads storage. If your Android device has an external SD card, you can download Spotify music to it, instead of the device's internal memory. Tip: Make sure your SD card has at least 1GB free space. The storage option only appears if your SD Card is available and accessible. Tap Other, then Storage. Import your local files to the Spotify desktop app, and add the MP3 files to a new playlist. Log in on your Android phone using the same Wi-Fi network as your desktop app.Step. Select the playlist containing the local MP3 files and tap Download button on Android phone to listen to the local MP3 files on Android.
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This guide will show you how to change the location where Spotify stores any files that you flag to download in order to be able to play them when you’re offline. This can be particularly helpful if you have a large library and want to store it on an external drive.
ps. If you’re an Android user, you may want to check out this guide for instructions on how save Spotify files on an SD card instead of the internal storage.
Note: this screenshots/images used in this guide are from macOS. If you use the Windows version of Spotify, the steps are nearly identical.
- Open the Spotify Preferences by selecting Spotify from your Menu Bar, and then Preferences from the pull-down list. Windows users: select Edit and then Preferences…
- Scroll to the bottom of the Spotify Preferences and click the SHOW ADVANCED SETTINGS
button. - Scroll down until you find the section titled Offline Songs Storage. Click the CHANGE LOCATION button.
- Now select the folder where you want Spotify to save files for offline listening etc. It’s worth mentioning that Spotify creates a bit of a ‘mess’ when it stores files – it utilizes a lot of coded folder and file names. You will almost certainly want to create a specific folder to store all of the other folders that Spotify will create.
When you’ve selected the new location, restart Spotify.
- When you re-start Spotify it’ll move all of the files to the new location. As illustrated in the screenshot below, it does create a rather confusing series of folders with just as “strangely” named files inside them. It’s OK – you’re not meant to really be sorting through them, it’s just the way Spotify stores things.
Spotify Download Folder On Android Download
This short guide will show you how to change the default location where Spotify for Android saves the files you download to listen to offline. Keeping them stored on your SD card can be very helpful in clearing up space on your phone/tablet.
Spotify Download Folder On Android Version
- Open Spotify on your Android device and select the Home screen.
- Tap the Settings icon from the upper-right corner of the Spotify app.
- Scroll all the way down to the section titled Other and then select the entry titled Storage
- Choose the location where you want Spotify to save the files by tapping it once.
- Tap the OK button when prompted. Spotify will now move any existing files you’ve already downloaded for offline listening over to the new location, and then it will restart.
- From now on when you choose files to download in Spotify they’ll be saved to the new location. That’s it, all done!