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I once found 15gb+ of Spotify cache from my 256gb MacBook. Deleted the app and use the web player now.

by jimvdv 4y ago

ReactiveJelly 4y ago
People ask why everything is web apps and there's the answer - It's a layer of sandboxing that users have _at least some_ control over.
- jbverschoor 4y ago
  Teams web version has local storage of 2gb. The problem is developers don’t know what the hell they’re doing
  - Spooky23 4y ago
    The problem is devs have beefy computers with 2TB SSDs.
    - jbverschoor 4y ago
      In music, producers would listen to their mix on different audio systems, including crappy radios.
      - bavell 4y ago
        Not just the producers, but musicians often do this as well (the good ones anyway!)
      - deleted 4y ago
        [deleted]
- jtbayly 4y ago
  I feel like I'd have a better chance clearing the cache for the app than the cache for the web app.
  - jrajav 4y ago
    It's a few clicks in any browsers dev tools or a few more clicks in the settings, and is the same for every website. With a native app the cache could be in any number of places on your hard drive, you have to depend on a function being in the app to clear it, deleting it manually might have unknown side effects, and it's all nonstandard.
  - hombre_fatal 4y ago
    Websites can’t write to arbitrary places on your FS and the browser has a central way to delete the data that a website can write. Desktop apps can write anywhere, and what it writes might or might not be a cache, so there’s no way to centrally manage it. Apps like cache-cleaners simply hard-code common cache paths for common apps.
- rTX5CMRXIfFG 4y ago
  Eh? People have some control over native apps too. It’s just a trade-off of what you want to control. I like how I can control the time I spend in my workflow just because native apps are faster and more battery-efficient, and don’t override OS gestures and mouse events within their own windows.
ipqk 4y ago
The cache is there for your benefit (and theirs too), so that you don't have to constantly re-download the same song over and over, which matters to some people that have bandwidth restrictions. There's a button in their settings that lets you clear it with ease
- sys_64738 4y ago
  I’ve had my music cached locally since the 90s.
- prepend 4y ago
  It doesn’t benefit me much as I have unlimited bandwidth and I can download an entire song in 10 seconds so don’t have any buffering. I can see how it saves Spotify some bandwidth costs. But I hate big caches as I don’t really think about them until my disk is full and I need to do something. I wish programs would be better stewards of user resources.
samsaga2 4y ago
The problem with the web player is that the volume normalization feature is missing.

I once found 15gb+ of Spotify cache from my 256gb MacBook. Deleted the app and use the web player now.

by jimvdv 4y ago

I once found 15gb+ of Spotify cache from my 256gb MacBook. Deleted the app and use the web player now.

People ask why everything is web apps and there's the answer - It's a layer of sandboxing that users have _at least some_ control over.

jbverschoor 4y ago
Teams web version has local storage of 2gb. The problem is developers don’t know what the hell they’re doing
- Spooky23 4y ago
  The problem is devs have beefy computers with 2TB SSDs.
  - jbverschoor 4y ago
    In music, producers would listen to their mix on different audio systems, including crappy radios.
    - bavell 4y ago
      Not just the producers, but musicians often do this as well (the good ones anyway!)
    - deleted 4y ago
      [deleted]
jtbayly 4y ago
I feel like I'd have a better chance clearing the cache for the app than the cache for the web app.
- jrajav 4y ago
  It's a few clicks in any browsers dev tools or a few more clicks in the settings, and is the same for every website. With a native app the cache could be in any number of places on your hard drive, you have to depend on a function being in the app to clear it, deleting it manually might have unknown side effects, and it's all nonstandard.
- hombre_fatal 4y ago
  Websites can’t write to arbitrary places on your FS and the browser has a central way to delete the data that a website can write. Desktop apps can write anywhere, and what it writes might or might not be a cache, so there’s no way to centrally manage it. Apps like cache-cleaners simply hard-code common cache paths for common apps.
rTX5CMRXIfFG 4y ago
Eh? People have some control over native apps too. It’s just a trade-off of what you want to control. I like how I can control the time I spend in my workflow just because native apps are faster and more battery-efficient, and don’t override OS gestures and mouse events within their own windows.

ipqk 4y ago

The cache is there for your benefit (and theirs too), so that you don't have to constantly re-download the same song over and over, which matters to some people that have bandwidth restrictions. There's a button in their settings that lets you clear it with ease

sys_64738 4y ago
I’ve had my music cached locally since the 90s.
prepend 4y ago
It doesn’t benefit me much as I have unlimited bandwidth and I can download an entire song in 10 seconds so don’t have any buffering. I can see how it saves Spotify some bandwidth costs. But I hate big caches as I don’t really think about them until my disk is full and I need to do something. I wish programs would be better stewards of user resources.

samsaga2 4y ago

The problem with the web player is that the volume normalization feature is missing.