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I have never liked this about Spotify... 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 muc…
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 uploadin…
We run into this issue with Skype constantly too. People want to use these programs, and have valid reasons to use them. But our business cannot accept the risk of peer to peer traffic on our protected network, so away they go. If there was even the slightest bit of obscure and dangerous and unsupported configuration options that left a backdoor to being able to turn off the p2p, I would love it. But there's not.
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.
Trickle could be useful for you: http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle
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 does actually say in the T&Cs that it's going to use you as a p2p node if I remember rightly, it's been a while since I've seen the header but it was listed as 'Computational resources'.
Is there a way? It would be so nice if something like this were built into the OS, but is there any kind of third-party software which will do that?
Surely people here know how to shape their bandwidth...?
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 does actually say in the T&Cs that it's going to use you as a p2p node if I remember rightly, it's been a while since I've seen the header but it was listed as 'Computational resources'.
Do the mobile clients also use P2P?
What is the best way, under OSX or Windows, to selectively limit upload (or download) speeds per-application ? Is there a way? It would be so nice if something like this were built into the OS, but is there any kind of third-party software which will do that?
on Windows: Netlimiter
Surely people here know how to shape their bandwidth...?