Spotify was down • Hacker News Board

Re: Spotify was down

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Mar 08, 2022, 6:51 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

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Re: Spotify was down

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Post by pfp » Tue, Mar 08, 2022, 6:52 PM UTC

fluidcruft wrote: post #43

fergbrain wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Ok but what does any of this have to do with Spotify?

It's called hybrid warfare.

Re: Spotify was down

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Post by shimmy568 » Tue, Mar 08, 2022, 6:52 PM UTC

Spotify is still working for me on their desktop app for the downloaded songs. Really weird that it logged everyone out on mobile...

Re: Spotify was down

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Post by AdmiralAsshat » Tue, Mar 08, 2022, 6:53 PM UTC

adriancarrieres wrote: post #37

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #23

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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.

I have 1.5TB of music. It's because I have so much that I make sure I've got backups, backups of backups, etc.

Just get some kind of syncing client so that you can just copy the deltas when you're making backups of backups. Offsite/cloud backup couldn't hurt, either.

Re: Spotify was down

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Post by chasd00 » Tue, Mar 08, 2022, 6:53 PM UTC

AWS is having problems, the two are probably related

https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/

EDIT: someone below mentioned Spotify is on GCP but Google appears to be having issues as well https://downdetector.com/status/google-cloud/

Re: Spotify was down

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Post by pm90 » Tue, Mar 08, 2022, 6:53 PM UTC

_sword wrote: post #6

Is GCP having an outage for both Spotify and Discord to be down?

This was my first guess as well since they're both pretty famous users of GCP.

Next thing to check: Snap, Shopify, Macy's...

Re: Spotify was down

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Post by GnomeSaiyan » Tue, Mar 08, 2022, 6:53 PM UTC

shimmy568 wrote: post #53

Spotify is still working for me on their desktop app for the downloaded songs. Really weird that it logged everyone out on mobile...

I got logged out from both mobile and desktop apps. Very frustrating.

Re: Spotify was down

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Post by cableshaft » Tue, Mar 08, 2022, 6:54 PM UTC

mwt wrote: post #11

TremendousJudge wrote: post #7

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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

Azure DevOps is "Investigating a service disruption" right now as well.

Re: Spotify was down

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Post by h1srf » Tue, Mar 08, 2022, 6:54 PM UTC

heavenlyblue wrote: post #13

Spotify decided to log out while on the flight :(

I feel you. I’m about to board a flight and Spotify logged me out while I was listening to an offline playlist.

Re: Spotify was down

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Post by 2000UltraDeluxe » Tue, Mar 08, 2022, 6:54 PM UTC

fluidcruft wrote: post #43

fergbrain wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Ok but what does any of this have to do with Spotify?

According to Downdetector, there's a large amount of services that have outages at the moment: https://downdetector.com/

The graphs for Spotify and multiple other services look very similar, so Spotify being down might just be a part of something larger. Whether it's Russian hackers or some more mundane is pure speculation at this point.