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Please give PC users the option to re-locate/change storage location for downloaded music.

Forum|Forum|6 years ago
April 14, 2020
33 replies
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It’s really quite simple. I think that a PC (or any user really) should have the option to set the storage location for downloaded music to a folder of their choosing on a drive of their choosing.

The reason being many PC users have relatively small Solid state drives that are mainly used for OS/Games for quick load times. We typically like to keep those SSDs clean and clutter free, storing music, photos and other things of a simple non software nature on a separate drive like a large external drive.

As it stands, Deezer forces all the downloaded music onto my main Drive, as in the one with my OS and games on it...there is no option to set a different location and I think that would be a pretty solid addition for PC user especially. To clarify, I’m not looking for a way to decrypt the music, or play it through a different media player or anything like that. I don’t care if I don’t even have access to the actual folder as long as I can decided WHERE the folder will occupy it’s space...namely, set storage to my external drive.

Thank You.

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Rudi

Ultimate Superstar

Hey @Demidchuk Mikhail

Thank you for sharing your knowledge and a step-by-step guide for Windows users of our desktop app - I've shared them with our devs as well, as I know it isn't ideal in these circumstances. But the community is a space for everyone so we welcome your initiative :v_tone2:

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Kevin Ying

Guitar Hero

yes yes, please! I use Deezer Hifi, and downloading it onto my teeny SSD is going to be too much! Please give us the option to change the offline files to another drive for management.

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Llamasticot

Guitar Hero

Hello :) I’m a new member as well, I’m starting a 4 month trial, leaving GPM since it’s closing soon. So far I’m happy with what I see, but the downloads on the main SSD is indeed something that’s a little annoying. Little bump because I hope this gets implemented!

Cheers, Lama

Rudi

Ultimate Superstar

Thanks a lot for supporting this, Lama @Llamasticot :thumbsup_tone2: I personally would like this as well, let's get more votes here!

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mrvsensible

Guitar Hero

I have the same issue as everyone else here i.e. I don’t want music taking up space on my SSD when I have an HDD for this kind of data.

Rudi

Ultimate Superstar

Yes, fair enough. This should be an option for our app, definitely @mrvsensible - so I'll pass your comments to our devs, it's our job to keep pushing for these useful features :thumbsup_tone2:

djbrown

Guitar Hero

@Rudi do you have more information now? Is this feature part of the roadmap?

djbrown

Guitar Hero

Also there doesn’t seem to be any workaround.

Deezer App still installs on my main drive, even though I changed the windows settings to save new apps on my secondary drive.
Settings (win+i) > Storage > Change where new content is saved > New apps will save to: secondary drive

Why is deezer still installed on my main drive?

walker

Hitmaker

Yes, it can be encrypted but they should give us the option to set where we want to keep the files. Maybe your local storage depends on 2 or more HDD / SSD, so if one is almost full, let us change to the other.

My vote!

Astell&Kern Norma SR15 + Sennheiser Momentum M2 AEG + Sennheiser HD 598 + Sony WH-1000XM2 + Sony WF-1000xm4 + own 2249 Hi-Fi/-Res Tracks + Deezer Freemium. Let's play!

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Bairyuu

Roadie

Bringing this up again. Such an important feature for people with smaller SSDs. We just want the option to change the download location as the HIFI files can get really heavy quite quickly and eat up ALL of the SSD

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