Do the mobile clients also use P2P?
No, per the "spotify technology" article linked to in the discussion-.
Why is Spotify chugging upload bandwidth when it is not streaming?
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#52This kind of thing is key to getting mainstream acceptance for p2p. Eg some ISPs try to forbid use of p2p apps, it's important you can bring up Skype and Spotify and WoW as mainstream apps that use p2p and aren't reasonable to ban.
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#53If you're using premium, why not just download the albums / playlists you want and set Spotify into 'Offline Mode'?
That's a labor intensive solution to a problem which should not exist in the first place. Speaking as a premium subscriber, I really value simple music discovery. I would be downloading or purchasing my own music if I felt strongly about micro managing my collection. If I feel like coding to someone else's 2000 track psychedelic trance playlist which I just happened across - I would like to do so without mucking arou…
Sure - I'm not saying it's the solution, just an option if it really bothers you.
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#54If you're using premium, why not just download the albums / playlists you want and set Spotify into 'Offline Mode'?
While this is an option, I prefer to stream my music than have it using space on my solid state drive and I only have premium to avoid adverts.
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#55I 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…
How about setting up a firewall rule so that Spotify can only talk to Spotify's servers? Here's a post from Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/spotify/comments/jdhj6/is_there_a_wa...
Right. I was just about to say. This is hackers do it. Sniff out the traffic and block really selectively.
My concern woud be: Am I violating TOS when i don't share bandwidth?
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#56It'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.
Last i heard idle clients (i.e. not currently streaming) are supposed to drop out of the P2P overlay, so it shouldn't be uploading if you haven't listened to music for a while. I haven't tested if this is actually the case though.
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#57I 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 imagine something like Little Snitch for the mac would work very well.
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#58I 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…
What sucks is that here at work (I work in corporate information security), we have developers who love to listen to music when they're programming. I support it. I like listening to music too. The problem is, some of them like Spotify. And since Spotify is peer-to-peer (and p2p applications are against the policy), it gets flagged in our security monitoring tool. And when it gets flagged, I have to make that action…
A good solution nowadays is to ban everything that is not work-related and have people just use their cellphones with their own data plans for that.
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#59I 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'm mostly shocked at how I simply was uninformed that spotify was using my connection so. I know over the past few months I've had occasional and even sometimes frequent spikes of latency while gaming.
I'm often left confuddled at these spikes as I won't have anything open I would consider requires much bandwith. Also, even though I would have high latency, opening a browser and navigating through sites would work as smoothly as ever.
Now I know to look at spotify specifically and I would not be very surprised if my spikes of bad internet activity are a result of spotify leeching my upload.
While I think it makes sense for spotify to use p2p in their system, I would have thought there would have been an indication of it in the options with an option to disable such services.
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#60Is there anyway to block the traffic that anyone knows of? I hate having to use 'offline mode' because my songs aren't scrobbled. Also as a paying user it's a kick in the teeth to have the client taking my bandwidth AND cpu while I'm not even using it. As a side note, Spotify has some of the worst community relations I've ever seen.