Why is Play Music so huge?

**Steve_S_T** · 12-12-2012, 01:02 AM

I've just noticed that Google Play Music is showing as taking up 1.04gb of space on my N4. This is somewhat surprising for a cloud service app, more so given that I have virtually no songs stored locally on the phone. Can anybody enlighten me as to why Music likes to hog so much space on the phone?

Thanks,

Steve.

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**Xelion** · 12-12-2012, 01:55 AM

Mine takes up 444KB. Do you have music selected as to be stored offline? That's the only thing I can think of.

Edit: Well scratch that, I reread your post. That does seem crazy.

**zorak950** · 12-12-2012, 02:07 AM

Do you have automatic caching on? Even if you don't tell it to save specific songs to local memory, by default it will fill up unused memory with the songs you play on it since it has to download them anyway. If you need the space later, it just empties the cache as needed.

**Fraser Carter** · 12-12-2012, 02:27 AM

Go to Google Play Music Settings, and untick "Automatically Cache" if its still causing you a problem.

**Steve_S_T** · 12-12-2012, 02:47 AM

Thanks for the replies all. I did have "Automatically Cache" checked so have now undone that and deleted the data so am starting again with a clean cache. It will be interesting to see if the auto cache affects performance in any way, but I know that the data delete hasn't fixed the incorrect album covers. Whilst I like Play Music it still has a good way to go on the functionality front.

Thanks again all,

Steve.

**still1** · 12-12-2012, 08:13 AM

Originally Posted by Steve_S_T

Thanks for the replies all. I did have "Automatically Cache" checked so have now undone that and deleted the data so am starting again with a clean cache. It will be interesting to see if the auto cache affects performance in any way, but I know that the data delete hasn't fixed the incorrect album covers. Whilst I like Play Music it still has a good way to go on the functionality front.

Thanks again all,

Steve.

it will affect performance in a way. cache will make your music play quick which you have already played. if not cached it will fetch the music from cloud again.
You will see a slight delay. if you have enough space caching can save you bandwith

**minnemike** · 12-12-2012, 08:37 AM

Yeah - I do not believe there is anything native to google drive that streams your music to google play. So if you listen to anything, it gets cached. I bought a cloud streaming app that lets me just stream from google drive and box - it's sweet! Ultimate mobile jukebox.

**Michael Rodgers** · 12-12-2012, 08:46 AM

Personally I'm a big fan of this feature, since it ensures that stuff I listen to often is automatically on the phone and I don't have to use bandwidth to stream it twice (or things I first listened to on wifi and thus never use any data plan bandwidth). I do wish there was a way to set the limit to user defined limits (500mb of cache, 1gb of cache, etc).

**still1** · 12-12-2012, 09:11 AM

Originally Posted by minnemike

Yeah - I do not believe there is anything native to google drive that streams your music to google play. So if you listen to anything, it gets cached. I bought a cloud streaming app that lets me just stream from google drive and box - it's sweet! Ultimate mobile jukebox.

what app is that?

**donec** · 12-15-2012, 08:21 PM

Originally Posted by Steve_S_T

I've just noticed that Google Play Music is showing as taking up 1.04gb of space on my N4. This is somewhat surprising for a cloud service app, more so given that I have virtually no songs stored locally on the phone. Can anybody enlighten me as to why Music likes to hog so much space on the phone?

Thanks,

Steve.

Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2

Clear your cache and see if that helps clear the stuff?