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Why is Spotify chugging upload bandwidth when it is not streaming?

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Re: Why is Spotify chugging upload bandwidth when it is not streaming?

#21
I don't use Spotify anymore, but when I did I was completely aware that this was happening, and ultimately I'm not too bothered by it using my connection to support other clients, because that's partly how it starts playing so fast. I would be very upset if it was using my entire connection.

Spotify should cap the speed at like 128KB/s, because that should be plenty for what they are doing. If they were using my full connection, I would be furious, because I'm not a data center for them, and I know how much data centers charge for bandwidth, and they would be getting an insane deal (my home connection is 100/100Mb).

It should probably have a cap for how long they are using your connection also. Once you've shared as much as you've downloaded, your connection should either stop sharing or go to an even lower speed.

Re: Why is Spotify chugging upload bandwidth when it is not streaming?

#23

I use Spotify on Ubuntu Linux. Looking into how it behaves there.

It might be worth trying to run it through trickle to limit the allowed upload bandwidth.

http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle

[Edit] I see someone else has linked to trickle above.

Re: Why is Spotify chugging upload bandwidth when it is not streaming?

#24

I don't use Spotify anymore, but when I did I was completely aware that this was happening, and ultimately I'm not too bothered by it using my connection to support other clients, because that's partly how it starts playing so fast. I would be very upset if it was using my entire connection. Spotify should cap the speed at like 128KB/s, because that should be plenty for what they are doing. If they were using my full…

Even at a 128KB/s fixed upload, that is still ~2x as much as my upload speed limit on UK ADSL.

Re: Why is Spotify chugging upload bandwidth when it is not streaming?

#25

I use Spotify on Ubuntu Linux. Looking into how it behaves there.

It might be worth trying to run it through trickle to limit the allowed upload bandwidth. http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle [Edit] I see someone else has linked to trickle above.

Awesome. Ubuntu even has packages for this. Thanks for the tip!

Re: Why is Spotify chugging upload bandwidth when it is not streaming?

#27

I use Spotify on Ubuntu Linux. Looking into how it behaves there.

I didn't see it uploading a lot over about 20 minutes. (1) I was listening to an obscure album, (2) I listen to small number of songs repeatedly, although I have a large number "starred" and in playlists from previous installs of the app.

Re: Why is Spotify chugging upload bandwidth when it is not streaming?

#28
I had to ban Spotify on our office network as the clients don't take into account how many users are on the local net and scale back accordingly. It only took a handful of users to soak up a noticeable amount of upload bandwidth.

That and there is an operational security issue with a program that uploads files from the local disk to untrusted peers and encrypts everything such that one cannot tell what it is uploading.

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