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Would be decent of Spotify to tell you / ask you nicely. But if you're gaming, why not just quit Spotify and other programs you're not using?
It's annoying enough that I shut Spotify down when I'm not using it. Then they get 0% of my bandwidth. I suppose there's enough lazy/unaware people that it doesn't matter.
May I just say, as someone who's often been critical of them in the past, thank you to the mods for setting a far more constructive title than the original submission.
It's annoying enough that I shut Spotify down when I'm not using it. Then they get 0% of my bandwidth. I suppose there's enough lazy/unaware people that it doesn't matter.
I hope you mean you also kill the background process they leave running.
It's annoying enough that I shut Spotify down when I'm not using it. Then they get 0% of my bandwidth. I suppose there's enough lazy/unaware people that it doesn't matter.
Looking into how it behaves there.
So the solutions outlined by Spotify are...
1) Suck it up. Its how the system works.
2) Use the web player. (Seems to be invite-only beta - US Only)
3) Use offline mode. Unlimited members pay for the service and cannot download tracks so not much use to those. Somewhat kills music discovery. Means you cannot use the radio option. Do social options work in offline mode? Not much point if they do as you would need to go online to play any new tracks.
4) Set cache size really small. (someone reported this doesn't work) Wouldn't this mean a big spike in downloads as none of your songs are cached?
Its crappy. I remember when I used to play counter-strike and I would have to shut down Spotify as it would kill my ping and make the game lag terribly. Launching in game radio though would be fine...
Asking free members to suck it up is fine. They are using the service for free and get a few ad's. Another cost to service is fine.
For paid members though there needs to be an option to drastically tune down the upload rate and even disable it if you are not listening to music yourself.
Spotify have been inactive on this issue to date. My hopes are fairly low that they will resolve it any time soon.
Would be decent of Spotify to tell you / ask you nicely. But if you're gaming, why not just quit Spotify and other programs you're not using?