The application Spotify for pc, Mac and Linux has a bug which greatly reduces the life of the hard disk, and even more of solid-state disks. Apparently the company is aware of the problem already for several months, but the update that fixes the problem was released only recently and is not yet arrived to all users.
almost five months, or more, the music streaming service Spotify occupies a storage space that is abnormal. It is a question of tens, in some cases hundreds, of gigabytes occupied in scripture by the application. In some rare cases, are also measured in terabytes. The overload also occurs when Spotify is inactive and does not store the songs locally.
the behavior of The application places an unnecessary burden on the storage devices of the users, especially on SSDS (solid state disks), on which you can rewrite endlessly, but they have a limited capacity. Write continuously hundreds of gigabytes of useless data on a drive that every day for months or years has the potential to cause the death of the SSD, reducing the life of even a few months in extreme cases.
Spotify for Windows, Mac, and Linux is subject to this bug, at least from the month of June last, when so many users have reported the problem in support forum the official of the company. Typically, the application writes 5 to 10 GB of data in less than an hour even when the application is inactive. According to Ars Technica leave Spotify running for periods longer than one day he brought the amount to store data for more than 700 GB.
The Swedish company has not responded to the users on the forum of the application and not even made any comment until the news has spread all over the world. The only thing said was: "We have seen the questions of some members of our community about the amount of data written by using the client of Spotify on the desktop. These were examined and any potential problems have now been addressed and resolved with version 1.0.42, which is currently sent to all users".
According to the forum post of Spotify, writing massive data is linked to one or more database files that include the string”.db. Users are presented with a variety of manual techniques that should correct or mitigate the problem, but the solution to solve this bug you must, without doubt, to get from Spotify and make the update available to all users immediately.
The update is not yet available to all users, in a couple of days should be installed around the world for Mac and Windows. Once the update will be available, Spotify will automatically install the next time you open the application, or, if the app is open, users will receive a notification on the screen of the app which is signalled by a blue flag with the request to restart the client to install the last update.
To verify the latest version installed, start Spotify, go on help and then "about Spotify". If the version is 1.0.42, you can rest easy because the software has been updated. If this were not the case it would be better to wait for the arrival of the update.
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