Allow CloudPlayer to be moved onto an internal SD card storage

bjr1822

June 02, 2020 18:07

It would be very helpful, given how much space can be taken up by offline music files, to allow CloudPlayer to be moved onto an internal SD card to expand the available storage for it, and to free up on-phone storage for other things that cannot be so easily moved. Right now many other apps allow this but CloudPlayer blocks this capability.

On my phone, my offline music cache takes up over 2/3 of my phone storage alone, and I was dissapointed to get an SD card to help free up some space, only to find that I couldn't move my CloudPlayer over to it, which would have single handedly resolved my storage issues.

Thanks for the consideration. 

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  doubleTwist Support

  June 04, 2020 06:44

  Hello,

  When installing CloudPlayer, it will automatically use the SD card for storage if it detects a SD card. It sounds like you didn't have a SD card in your device when you installed CloudPlayer so it defaulted to using internal storage. After adding a SD card, did you see the "Storage:" switch in CloudPlayer Settings? That should allow you to select the SD card for storage.

   
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  bjr1822

  June 13, 2020 05:40

  I did not, but thank you! That's great that it allows that. My only wonder now is, will it migrate the existing offline cache to the card after toggling the setting, or do I need to do something special to move the files that are already cached offline over?

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  doubleTwist Support

  June 14, 2020 22:40

  Any songs previously downloaded for offline playback will not be migrated over so you will have to unselect/reselect the item. When unselected, they will be removed and then when reselected, they will be downloaded to the SD card (if you've selected the SD card as destination in Settings).

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  Nick Chandler

  July 20, 2020 18:25

  I couldn't find where to unselect items.  I ended up just uninstalling and reinstalling.  I guess that means I lose playlists and recently played, etc., but it was quick.

   

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