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Re: Spotify was down

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Post by Jamie9912 »

Symmetry wrote: post #12
ianhanschen wrote: post #3

Wikipedia English also appears to be down.

And Cloudflare maybe? They just announced they wouldn't be cutting off Russia which might have been the reason but I think the other services affected use Google Cloud?

Cloudflare is working fine for me.. even Discord's CDN is behind it and working fine

Re: Spotify was down

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Post by mjevans »

DaGardner wrote: post #17
heavenlyblue wrote: post #13

Spotify decided to log out while on the flight :(

this annoys me as well, why would the app decide to log me out, when it cannot connect to the backend? I have playlists downloaded for this exact reason...

This is why you should just say NO to DRM.

Re: Spotify was down

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Post by AdmiralAsshat »

gatonegro wrote: post #5

And this is why I refuse to give up on owning media and relying on streaming. Discord seems to be gone, as well.

As I've said before: Spotify / Tidal / YouTube Music is great for discovery, IMO. Just not consumption. I use them for checking out new artists, or albums by artists that I haven't heard before. But once I've passed from the "Huh, that was interesting" stage to "Yeah, I think I'm gonna listen to this album again in the future", it's time to buy it, rip it to MP3/FLAC(if I bought a physical copy), and get it into my media collection backups.

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Post by sublimefire »

The painful bit was that I got automatically logged out with all of those "offline" songs. Is it a feature or a bug? IMO if there was no logout then many clients would just keep playing the cached songs, and people would not notice a disruption that much.

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Post by implements »

gatonegro wrote: post #5

And this is why I refuse to give up on owning media and relying on streaming. Discord seems to be gone, as well.

In the UK, physical media can be got for pennies from charity shops (our name for “Goodwill”) - It’s not a bad idea to stock up on favourite films, tv or music if you’ve got the space while it’s still possible.

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Post by thusjustin »

detaro wrote: post #15
throw_m239339 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't own media, you just pay for the right to listen/see it. A subtle but important difference. Just like software with a license granting the right to use that software. Now of course, technically, Warner can't go after your CD collection, just like Adobe couldn't refuse you to use your boxed copy of Photopshop pre-CC...

> You don't own media, you just pay for the right to listen/see it. A subtle but important difference Explain please, in what way do I not own the media I bought? EDIT: responding to your edit: > Now of course, technically, Warner can't go after your CD collection and non-technically, what's the "subtle but important" difference here?

You can’t rebroadcast it for a profit, for example.

Re: Spotify was down

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Post by gnulinux »

DaGardner wrote: post #17
heavenlyblue wrote: post #13

Spotify decided to log out while on the flight :(

this annoys me as well, why would the app decide to log me out, when it cannot connect to the backend? I have playlists downloaded for this exact reason...

Same, it logged me out and can't log back in. I have dozens of hours of music downloaded on my phone for this exact reason... And I bought Spotify premium for this exact reason, to listen to offline music. What a shame.

Re: Spotify was down

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Post by wrs »

detaro wrote: post #15
throw_m239339 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't own media, you just pay for the right to listen/see it. A subtle but important difference. Just like software with a license granting the right to use that software. Now of course, technically, Warner can't go after your CD collection, just like Adobe couldn't refuse you to use your boxed copy of Photopshop pre-CC...

> You don't own media, you just pay for the right to listen/see it. A subtle but important difference Explain please, in what way do I not own the media I bought? EDIT: responding to your edit: > Now of course, technically, Warner can't go after your CD collection and non-technically, what's the "subtle but important" difference here?

You own the physical media but not the data (song) that’s stored on it. That’s literally what copyright is: the right to copy. You don’t buy that right when you buy the CD.
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