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I know you can change the location where spotify stores its cached songs, but i was wondering if you could move it to a network drive, and have multiple PC's access it, this way we reduce the amount of downloads within our company

has anyone tried this?

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    (1) Is this question for Windows? (2) What happens if in Preferences / Local Files you use "Add Source" to add a network location?
    – harrymc
    Nov 2, 2014 at 17:28
  • 1. windows pc's only, 2. not sure, we have not set it up yet
    – Frank_Vr
    Nov 2, 2014 at 23:55
  • Try (2). If it works then problem is solved, if not then we need other ideas.
    – harrymc
    Nov 3, 2014 at 8:27
  • I was hoping someone has already tried, so that i wouldn't have to invest money into unnecessary hardware. but worse case this is the path i will take. thanks @harrymc
    – Frank_Vr
    Nov 3, 2014 at 12:33

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I am not sure this is a good idea, since the cache is used for fast access. A network drive is slower to access than normal media. Of course how slow/fast depends on what device it is and what interface it uses to connect to the network (USB/ethernet etc...)

On top of that I am not sure if this will be a good idea from an amount of concurrent users perspective.

Maybe you should block Spotify and tell people to use their phones' mobile network data plans or local music files?

Edit: To actually answer you question instead of questioning it, Spotify supports caching on network drives I just found out. I haven't tried it, but it should be possible.

Maybe you should try with a simple thumb drive or HDD and see if it works optimally?

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