Option to Limit How Much Phone Storage Spotify Uses

I have a starred list that is not huge by most standards: 1700 songs or so.
It's too large to fit in the available storage on my phone which is 4 or 5 GB (some of the files are local files which are probably a bit bigger than the low-bitrate ones Spotify uses for streaming).
I have a Nexus 4 with no SD card slot.
For a long time that was no problem, Spotify occasionally complained that it was out of space but most of the songs were available when in airplane mode even if some weren't, and Android seemed to enforce that it always had enough space to upgrade apps and whatnot.
But now since I've upgraded to lollipop, Android wants to upgrade all my apps and a lot of them seem to have grown. Once available space goes below 500MB Android refuses to download app updates any more so I'm stuck without being able to update any apps.
I'm trying to figure out how to limit the size of the storage used by Spotify and I can't find a setting in Spotify or in Android to do that.
It seems amazing to me that neither Spotify nor Android have this capability.
If I can't do that my only options would be to create a second "Mobile Starred" list with less songs which would be a management nightmare, or delete all of Spotify's data via Android settings, upgrade my apps, then download the Starred list again, after which Spotify would just fill up the phone's storage again immediately and I'd be back in the same boat the next time an app wants to update.
If Android is not going to provide an option to limit how much storage is used, then Spotify should do it.
I don't know if this is also an issue on iOS or not.

Hey agraham.
While perhaps not the solution you were looking for, I've just finished a Spotify web service that attempts to automate the creation of a limited-size randomly sampled playlist from a variety of sources (library and/or playlists). This would automate the creation of your 'Mobile Starred' playlist and will perhaps be sufficient for you as it was for me.
You can find it at http://shufflify.alexjf.net

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