Speed Up Spotify Mac

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  1. Listen to Speed Up on Spotify. Mac Rell Single 2017 1 songs.
  2. Clean up Your Mac and Improve Overall Speed. The steps that speed up your Mac’s performance as a whole will also help to speed up your internet. If you’ve tried all the other suggestions (and you’ve talked with your internet provider), try cleaning up your Mac. The best way is to use an app called CleanMyMac.
  3. Restart your Mac. If you haven't restarted it for a while your RAM could be maxed out. Delete unnecessary files, apps and other items that are taking up space - especially if you have less than 10%.

Part 2. Speed Up Song / Slow Down Spotify Music in Web Player

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Update your Mac’s software. First things first — make sure MacOS and all apps are current. Change Spotify playback speed on PotPlayer. Open PotPlayer and play a song downloaded from Spotify. Click the Cog icon to enter control panel and go to Playback. Clik the options below to slow down or speed up the playback speed. Change Spotify playback speed on Third-Party DJ App.

As is mentioned above, there is no official way for you to speed up music or slow down songs yet. Luckily, there is an effective for us to change Spotify playback speed in the Spotify Web Player effortlessly. 'Spotify Playback Speed Access' is a totally free Chrome extension which adds ability to change song speed with an input next to the volume slider. Find this extension in the chrome web store and install it in your Chrome browser.

After installation, please visit Spotify Web Player and log in with your account. You will see a little box next to volume, for you to adjust the Spotify playback speed, with a default of 100 at normal music playback. You can either press the triangle icon to increase or decrease the level to fast forward or slow down the playback speed or enter a number between 7 and 1600. This free Chrome extension allows you to adjust the playback speed of all Spotify contents including music, podcasts, and audiobooks. It would be a fun and useful feature for musicians, dancers, or teachers for practicing and class activities.

Spotify is a hugely popular music streaming service, and while many people use it on a smartphone while they’re on the move, lots of us use it on our Macs to play music or podcasts at home or while we work. You may have noticed that after you have been using it for a while, Spotify can start to run slowly. Why does it do that, and what can you do about it? We’ll answer those questions in this article, as well as give you a tip on how you can keep your Mac running all the time smoothly.

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Why is Spotify running so slow?

When you listen to Spotify, the music or podcasts you stream are cached on your boot drive. That way, if you listen to the same track again, it doesn’t have to stream it over the internet; it can only play it from the cache. The cache is supposed to be deleted each time you quit Spotify. But like all cache files, sometimes that doesn’t happen. And if you keep Spotify open all the time and don’t restart your Mac often, it won’t be deleted. That means it will keep growing and growing and eventually start to slow Spotify down.

How to speed up Spotify on your Mac

If the Spotify app is slow on your Mac, you could try reducing the size of the cache file so that it no longer slows it down.

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Spotify isn’t the only app that stores cache files on your Mac, many apps do it, especially web browsers. Most of the time, it’s not a problem. But if the cache isn’t deleted when the app is closed, it can build up and take up lots of space on your Mac and even cause it to run slowly. CleanMyMac X’s System Junk module identifies cache and other junk files taking up space on your Mac and helping you get rid of them.

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There are two ways you can speed up Spotify on your Mac: limit the amount of data Spotify streams so that the cache doesn’t grow as quickly, or manually reduce the size of the cache.

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1. Limit the data Spotify streams

  1. Go to your Applications folder and launch Spotify on your Mac.
  2. Select the Spotify menu in the menu bar and choose Preferences.
  3. Look for the Music Quality section.
  4. Click the dropdown menu and select Low or Normal.

This will reduce the bit rate of the music that Spotify streams and reduce the size of the cache needed to store it on your Mac.

2. Clear Spotify’s cache

  • Press Command-Q to quit Spotify, or choose Quit from the Spotify menu.
  • In the Finder, select Go from the menu bar and choose Go to Folder.
  • When the text input box appears, type or paste this: ~/Library/Application Support/Spotify/prefs
  • Right-click or Control-click on that prefs file and choose Open With, then Text Edit (or another text editor like BB Edit if you have one installed).
  • Scroll to the bottom of the text file and paste this in a new line: storage.size=1024 (1024 is the maximum size of the cache in MB. You can replace that number with whatever you choose and set your own maximum limit)
  • Save and close the file.
  • Drag the PersistentCache folder inside the Spotify folder to the Trash.
  • Launch Spotify.

Spotify’s cache will now have shrunk to the size you specified in the text file. The rest has been deleted. The cache shouldn’t ever grow larger than the size you selected in the text file.

3. Reset the Spotify app

If the previous methods didn’t help, you could try deleting and reinstalling the app. Although, if you want to save time, resetting Spotify might be the option. With CleanMyMac X, you can reset any app to its default state and fix possible issues. Here’s how to do that:

  1. Launch CleanMyMac X (download the app here).
  2. Go to Uninstaller.
  3. Choose Spotify from the list of apps.
  4. Click the options next to the app's name and choose Reset.
  5. Press the Reset button.

Spotify caches the music you stream on your Mac so that you can listen to the same track again and again without having to keep streaming the data over the internet. The cache should be deleted at the end of each session, but sometimes this doesn’t happen, and it causes Spotify to run slowly. If that has happened to you, follow the steps above to get Spotify running smoothly.