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Spotify decided to log out while on the flight :(
It logged you out while in "airplane mode"? How did it decide to do that? Genuinely curious, I don't use it but would have expected offline things to continue as they were while cut off from the rest of the network.
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/
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…
Alas that's illegal in the UK
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.
Their offline playback support is a joke. The iOS app will attempt to load album art indefinitely before allowing one to play saved songs – if you're on shaky internet (e.g. on the subway), you have to turn off cellular and WiFi entirely. Google Play Music was the only app to really nail it, but Google sadly put it out to pasture.
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Their offline playback support is a joke. The iOS app will attempt to load album art indefinitely before allowing one to play saved songs – if you're on shaky internet (e.g. on the subway), you have to turn off cellular and WiFi entirely. Google Play Music was the only app to really nail it, but Google sadly put it out to pasture.
> Google Play Music was the only app to really nail it For what it's worth, I have had good results with Apple Music. It works great as a "custom jukebox in the sky" for me. I use iTunes installed from the Windows Store and just drag my own music files onto iTunes. It syncs them to Apple Music where the files stand right alongside the streamed tracks from the paid service. I can put them in playlists together, edit m…
You're dead on, though, that Apple Music is lightyears ahead of Spotify wrt local files.
And this is why I refuse to give up on owning media and relying on streaming. Discord seems to be gone, as well.
Yup. I turned on the record player instead. I'm glad I still have a dumb machine I can fall back on when all of the technology fails.
My music is still streaming on speakers in the other room but I can't log in to pause it. Really annoying.
If anyone wants to download their Spotify playlist (actual rip) offline I found this tool very useful https://github.com/eviabs/downtify-premium