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Re: Spotify Down

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Post by szszrk »

itsangaris wrote: post #5
sva_ wrote: post #2

Even the status page is down https://support.spotify.com/us/article/ongoing-issues/

hosting the status page on the same domain as the service is a choice

It's on a different subdomain for support and hosted by something else. So while some domain ownership issues or poorly prepared dns changes could impact both, it's not the same as their actual service.

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Post by arccy »

at least offline playback works, though the ui is still sluggish when it thinks it should be able to reach their servers (airplane mode is snappy, bad internet connections or service outage it waits for long timeouts).

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Post by silverquiet »

ohgr wrote: post #6

Not surprised. Spotify crapping out constantly and songs disappearing drove me away from streaming. So in 2023 I stopped paying for streaming services entirely and have gone back to actually buying CDs and ripping them or hitting bandcamp for FLACs etc. Life is much better. No one can take my shit away, I don't depend on some transient service existing or license or any external competence and I can choose how much I…

I think I was born an old curmudgeon because I've essentially always felt this way. That said, Spotify got me to subscribe at least for a bit because I could not match its catalog and convenience. I also try and keep a FLAC archive of all music I might want, but some things just don't exist on other mediums these days.

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Post by szszrk »

yapyap wrote: post #9
sva_ wrote: post #2

Even the status page is down https://support.spotify.com/us/article/ongoing-issues/

The status page being down should be a good indicator of the status

It's called a liveness probe :) maybe they use it for load balancer health checks...

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Post by cadamsdotcom »

Huge fan here, sad to see people so up in arms. Spotify offers two valuable things: of course, every song ever with no need to tag them, manage your library etc etc

But most importantly it’s insanely good for discovering new cool music.

It’s the latter - discovery - that I pay for. Song radio, artist radio, “discover weekly” get me through the day.

Spotify outages are rare enough no one thought it could go down. They’re doing well. Consider: if you manage your own music library there’ll be days the hard drive doesn’t work, vpn dies etc etc. - to operate at 99.99% reliability you’re only allowed 4 minutes’ downtime per month. If you dick around fixing your NAS for an hour you just blew your whole year’s downtime budget.

So for Spotify to go so long without downtime is amazing.

Looking forward to the postmortem!

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Post by dylan604 »

cadamsdotcom wrote: post #18

Huge fan here, sad to see people so up in arms. Spotify offers two valuable things: of course, every song ever with no need to tag them, manage your library etc etc But most importantly it’s insanely good for discovering new cool music. It’s the latter - discovery - that I pay for. Song radio, artist radio, “discover weekly” get me through the day. Spotify outages are rare enough no one thought it could go down. They…

every music platform that claims to have great discovery eventually decides i've discovered enough and then starts to repeat things just like corp radio. the discovery is a sham. of course it's going to sound great when you first start to listen to something different, but there's only so much out there. eventually, they're going to start streaming preferred things at you

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Post by dylan604 »

cupofjoakim wrote: post #3

I hope they post a post-mortem afterwords. Given that the outage seems to be on an infra-level (support domain is far from the app stuff) I take it something really funky has happened.

over/under on it being DNS??
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