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Re: Spotify was down

#42

The painful bit was that I got automatically logged out with all of those "offline" songs. Is it a feature or a bug? IMO if there was no logout then many clients would just keep playing the cached songs, and people would not notice a disruption that much.

You didn't buy these songs, so they won't let you enjoy them if you can't log in. What a wonderful world!

Re: Spotify was down

#43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure what you're suggesting. Russia doing something to disrupt GPS? NATO switching GPS to combat mode? What?

No, Russia is likely jamming GPS. It’s a somewhat frequent occurrence even before the war.

Ok but what does any of this have to do with Spotify?

Re: Spotify was down

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post #20

There are disruptions in GPS signals in Eastern and Central Finland as well. [1] No prizes for guessing the most obvious culprit. [1] https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-12348237

I'm not sure what you're suggesting. Russia doing something to disrupt GPS? NATO switching GPS to combat mode? What?

Russians DDOSing various services and jamming communications.

Dunno if "combat mode" GPS is a thing anymore with GLONASS etc.

Re: Spotify was down

#47
post #20

There are disruptions in GPS signals in Eastern and Central Finland as well. [1] No prizes for guessing the most obvious culprit. [1] https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-12348237

What does that have to do with Spotify being down?

Re: Spotify was down

#48

The painful bit was that I got automatically logged out with all of those "offline" songs. Is it a feature or a bug? IMO if there was no logout then many clients would just keep playing the cached songs, and people would not notice a disruption that much.

I am under the impression that Spotify doesn't care a lot about UX in general. Inconsistencies in gesture handling, sessions still buggy after years, being logged out as soon as the API is unreachable, directly playing a song when opening a link, etc

Re: Spotify was down

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post #29
post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You don't own media, you just pay for the right to listen/see it. A subtle but important difference Explain please, in what way do I not own the media I bought? EDIT: responding to your edit: > Now of course, technically, Warner can't go after your CD collection and non-technically, what's the "subtle but important" difference here?

You own the physical media but not the data (song) that’s stored on it. That’s literally what copyright is: the right to copy. You don’t buy that right when you buy the CD.

I kind of expected something that's relevant to the comment the GP made about "owning media" in the context of other distribution mechanism going down (ignoring that I indeed have the right to copy discs I own, for limited purposes), not a "did you know that owning music media means what everyone understands owning music media to mean".

Re: Spotify was down

#50

The painful bit was that I got automatically logged out with all of those "offline" songs. Is it a feature or a bug? IMO if there was no logout then many clients would just keep playing the cached songs, and people would not notice a disruption that much.

Discord seems to be down as well -- https://discordstatus.com
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