Offline mode for Spotify desktop app confirmed

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• Unless that cached content is heavily encrypted (which I can only assume is part of the reasoning behind the 'registered user' pre-requisite) this won't end well. The moment you discover how to remove the user token from the file is the moment Spotify starts getting asked a lot of awkward questions about the viability of this 'offline' functionality.
  
  This will be interesting to follow. Posted by L.Rawlins, UK
• @LRawlins Shhh... don't tell anyone, but all those files you've been listening to are already encrypted on your hard drive. Spotify delivers its tracks so fast thanks to a P2P algorithm that gets music off users close to you (if they've got it). You'll notice how Lady Gaga plays much quicker than obscurer bands (though they're not slow). Check out the whopping 10GB cache in your settings for proof of this.
  
  All adding an offline option would do is let you access the music without having to authenticate first. Even then, if it's like the mobile versions, you'll still have to log in once very thirty days. My worry with this is that it'll be seen as "DRM" (which, to be fair, it is) and people will avoid for that reason. Posted by radioedit, United Kingdom