When using Plucky, there are several options for listening to streaming music while excluding album cover art.

Windows

Spotify

Spotify’s desktop app and web player can be given the classic treatment so that songs are playable but all images/videos are gutted. Here’s how:

  1. Import the Spotify recipe here: https://u.pluckeye.net/configurations/193230

  2. Delete the cache to remove previously loaded images. You can do this either of two ways:

    • In the Spotify app, go to your User in the top right and from the dropdown menu Settings > Storage > Clear Cache
    • In File Explorer go to %localappdata%/Spotify/Storage and delete everything in this folder

If the above fails on newer versions of Spotify, please let us know.

macOS

Spotify

Follow instructions here.

The only difference is the location of the cache, which is located at ~/Library/Application Support/Spotify/PersistentCache/Storage and ~/Library/Caches/com.spotify.client/Browser/Cache. Make sure to delete everything contained in these two directory paths.

Linux

Spotify

Follow instructions here.

The only difference is the location of the cache, which can be found in ~/.cache/spotify/Storage

Android

Streaming music services that work with Pluckeye on Android

Streaming music services that do not work with Pluckeye on Android

Streaming services that can work with HeartGuard

Spotify

On Android, using HeartGuard, allowing only the following hosts let me listen to a podcast with John Mark Comer without seeing any art:

  • android.googleapis.com
  • api2.branch.io
  • audio4-ak.spotifycdn.com
  • clienttoken.spotify.com
  • connectivitycheck.gstatic.com
  • daylist.spotifycdn.com
  • encore.scdn.co
  • guc3-spclient.spotify.com

Unknown, other services

  • siriusxm
Last updated: 2026-07-14