Incident report: Spotify outage on March 8

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Post by charlieegan3 » Fri, Mar 11, 2022, 9:32 PM UTC

Incident report: Spotify outage on March 8
engineering.atspotify.com

Re: Incident report: Spotify outage on March 8

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Post by hericium » Fri, Mar 11, 2022, 9:48 PM UTC

> On March 8, Google Cloud Traffic Director experienced an outage. This in coordination with a bug in a client (gRPC) library caused the Spotify outage that affected many of our users: if you were logged out of a Spotify app, you were unable to log back in.

Re: Incident report: Spotify outage on March 8

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Post by jmacd » Fri, Mar 11, 2022, 10:04 PM UTC

Just here to share that if you haven't tried Apple Music for its lossless and Dolby Atmos sound quality then you really, really, should.

Apple Music does not have a great UI but it is definitely worth the trade off.

Tidal sounds great, but they make you pay extra for lossless and have a smaller catalogue.

Re: Incident report: Spotify outage on March 8

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Post by Chilinot » Fri, Mar 11, 2022, 10:07 PM UTC

jmacd wrote: post #3

Just here to share that if you haven't tried Apple Music for its lossless and Dolby Atmos sound quality then you really, really, should. Apple Music does not have a great UI but it is definitely worth the trade off. Tidal sounds great, but they make you pay extra for lossless and have a smaller catalogue.

Apple Music is just so increadibly bad UX wise. I have a real hard time justifying paying for it and have considered many times to switch back to Spotify. Trying to find new and interesting music is pretty much impossible outside of the "here's what people listen to now" playlists. You need to know what to look for when searching for things.

Spotify was great for finding indie music bands, and could really give good recommendations. Apple music is not even in the same league.

Re: Incident report: Spotify outage on March 8

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Post by wizwit999 » Fri, Mar 11, 2022, 10:07 PM UTC

So the bigger news here is GCP had a global outage. How'd that happen?

It mentions a pipeline deployment introduced a bug (https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/LuGcJVjNTeC5Sb9pSJ...) but why weren't they doing staged deployments to region(s) at a time?

Re: Incident report: Spotify outage on March 8

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Post by josephh » Fri, Mar 11, 2022, 10:11 PM UTC

jmacd wrote: post #3

Just here to share that if you haven't tried Apple Music for its lossless and Dolby Atmos sound quality then you really, really, should. Apple Music does not have a great UI but it is definitely worth the trade off. Tidal sounds great, but they make you pay extra for lossless and have a smaller catalogue.

Amazon Music Unlimited also has it included in their catalog. How does Apple's fare against Amazon's?

Re: Incident report: Spotify outage on March 8

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Post by ge96 » Fri, Mar 11, 2022, 10:13 PM UTC

jmacd wrote: post #3

Just here to share that if you haven't tried Apple Music for its lossless and Dolby Atmos sound quality then you really, really, should. Apple Music does not have a great UI but it is definitely worth the trade off. Tidal sounds great, but they make you pay extra for lossless and have a smaller catalogue.

> lossless and Dolby Atmos sound quality

General headphone recommendation? Best I have is an MDR-7506 but I don't think it's meant for listening rather producing.

Re: Incident report: Spotify outage on March 8

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Post by sitzkrieg » Fri, Mar 11, 2022, 10:14 PM UTC

jmacd wrote: post #3

Just here to share that if you haven't tried Apple Music for its lossless and Dolby Atmos sound quality then you really, really, should. Apple Music does not have a great UI but it is definitely worth the trade off. Tidal sounds great, but they make you pay extra for lossless and have a smaller catalogue.

random sample but i try this every couple of years - both tidal and apple music do not have 10 songs in today's release radar list available.

the tidal client is nearly as bad as spotifys too

Re: Incident report: Spotify outage on March 8

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Post by lelandfe » Fri, Mar 11, 2022, 10:17 PM UTC

jmacd wrote: post #3

Just here to share that if you haven't tried Apple Music for its lossless and Dolby Atmos sound quality then you really, really, should. Apple Music does not have a great UI but it is definitely worth the trade off. Tidal sounds great, but they make you pay extra for lossless and have a smaller catalogue.

If you can consistently tell the difference between Spotify Premium's 320kbps and Apple Music's lossless, I am very impressed. Most folks reading this won't be able to.

Having used both, I'm now happily paying for Spotify to avoid using the train wreck that is the Apple Music app. It is a true shame what Apple has done to iTunes.

Re: Incident report: Spotify outage on March 8

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Post by kactus » Fri, Mar 11, 2022, 10:17 PM UTC

jmacd wrote: post #3

Just here to share that if you haven't tried Apple Music for its lossless and Dolby Atmos sound quality then you really, really, should. Apple Music does not have a great UI but it is definitely worth the trade off. Tidal sounds great, but they make you pay extra for lossless and have a smaller catalogue.

I switched to Apple Music from Spotify just because I don't like podcasts mixed in with my music, and UI that constantly advertises their podcasts side.

The improved sound quality on Apple Music is a major benefit, and I was able to add all my music that isn't in their library (and sync across devices).

I also love that upcoming albums that drip feed new tracks aren't categorized as EPs like Spotify does it. I can view the track in the upcoming album on Apple Music, add the album to my library, and then get notifications as they add more tracks or release the album.

Apple Music's macOS app UI is terrible, no way around that. They're supposedly making some parts of it native in a future macOS release though.