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Re:macOS keeps a huge wallpapers cache by ipqk on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @07:08PM (#33002297)
The cache is there for your benefit (and theirs too), so that you don't have to constantly re-download the same song over and over, which matters to some people that have bandwidth restrictions. There's a button in their settings that lets you clear it with ease
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Re:macOS keeps a huge wallpapers cache by prepend on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @07:38PM (#33002560)
It doesn’t benefit me much as I have unlimited bandwidth and I can download an entire song in 10 seconds so don’t have any buffering.

I can see how it saves Spotify some bandwidth costs.

But I hate big caches as I don’t really think about them until my disk is full and I need to do something.

I wish programs would be better stewards of user resources.

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Re:macOS keeps a huge wallpapers cache by sys_64738 on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @10:21PM (#33003567)
I’ve had my music cached locally since the 90s.
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