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Re: Spotify was down

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Post by stavros » Tue, Mar 08, 2022, 6:44 PM UTC

implements wrote: post #25

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.

I hear there's currently a sale on The Pirate Bay too.

Re: Spotify was down

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Post by engineeringwoke » Tue, Mar 08, 2022, 6:46 PM UTC

wilkystyle wrote: post #14

apetresc wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is why? Because once every year or two it'll be unavailable for a couple of hours?

While this particular scenario is quite rare (this is the first time I've been personally affected since starting my membership in 2013), I understand the parent commenter's sentiment. It was a little jarring to realize that all of my library's (and basically any on-demand) music was completely unavailable and at the mercy of this issue being resolved. Again, a temporary issue and one that happens quite infrequently,…

I feel like it's really just a sort of existential dread about being reliant on anyone for anything, other than oneself. It's like being afraid that if there's a zombie apocalypse then you won't be able to listen to the same old songs on repeat like a scene out of I am Legend

Re: Spotify was down

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Post by brown9-2 » Tue, Mar 08, 2022, 6:46 PM UTC

mwt wrote: post #11

TremendousJudge wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

and Twitter had issues a couple of hours ago. weird day, could this be some sort of attack? it's not like any cloud providers have reported issues afaik

Google Cloud is reporting some oopsies

of course https://status.cloud.google.com/ is all green

Re: Spotify was down

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Post by vinayan3 » Tue, Mar 08, 2022, 6:46 PM UTC

apetresc wrote: post #8

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.

This is why? Because once every year or two it'll be unavailable for a couple of hours?

We've all come to accept random outages for so many of services we use. I wish we didn't have to because for some of these services I really don't have a backup. Given how infrequent they happen it's not worth my time to invest in having a ready backup for music streaming, when I'm not at home with my NAS. Other forms of distribution didn't have "outages" like CDs but these days when a cloud service outage happens it's like half the internet goes out. These types of outages are quite impactful.

From another perspective living in the US I'm pretty grateful that the power is super stable because so many things I rely on need power and they almost always work. In India it's common to have rolling blackouts so people are quite adapted to outages daily.

Re: Spotify was down

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Post by fluidcruft » Tue, Mar 08, 2022, 6:46 PM UTC

pfp wrote: post #20

There are disruptions in GPS signals in Eastern and Central Finland as well. [1] No prizes for guessing the most obvious culprit. [1] https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-12348237

I'm not sure what you're suggesting. Russia doing something to disrupt GPS? NATO switching GPS to combat mode? What?

Re: Spotify was down

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Post by heavymark » Tue, Mar 08, 2022, 6:46 PM UTC

Was wondering why I was logged out all of the sudden.

Re: Spotify was down

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Post by adriancarrieres » Tue, Mar 08, 2022, 6:47 PM UTC

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #23

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 m…

I should probably do that as well, but I listen to so much music that it would be really painful to back it up.

Re: Spotify was down

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Post by vpribish » Tue, Mar 08, 2022, 6:47 PM UTC

ianhanschen wrote: post #3

Wikipedia English also appears to be down.

working for me

Re: Spotify was down

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Post by fergbrain » Tue, Mar 08, 2022, 6:47 PM UTC

fluidcruft wrote: post #35

pfp wrote: post #20

There are disruptions in GPS signals in Eastern and Central Finland as well. [1] No prizes for guessing the most obvious culprit. [1] https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-12348237

I'm not sure what you're suggesting. Russia doing something to disrupt GPS? NATO switching GPS to combat mode? What?

No, Russia is likely jamming GPS. It’s a somewhat frequent occurrence even before the war.

Re: Spotify was down

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Post by grumple » Tue, Mar 08, 2022, 6:48 PM UTC

TremendousJudge wrote: post #18

mwt wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google Cloud is reporting some oopsies

And so is AWS, at least according to downdetector. It would be a bit of a very large coincidence for both to have issues at the same time

Usually this points to something like a fiber cut or backbone misconfig. Sometimes it can also be a data center issue with some trickling effects on other parts of the network.