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Spotify's crash is right to have music lovers worried - but is there anything we can do about it? There was a time, many moons ago, when our listening habits ...

Instead, we depend on something that is out of our control, and could disappear at the flick of a switch. But maybe now’s the time to start, especially with the music that means the most to you. It’s been enough to convince us to give up on music in the physical realm and dive into digital. We’re beholden to the inner workings of a server in some undisclosed location, hanging onto the promise of the coding that’s tasked with keeping the lights on, and we don’t really have a choice in the matter. Despite its problems ( of which there are some quite fundamental ones), streaming has plenty of benefits compared to CDs and vinyl; the unfettered access it gives us to the world’s music, far greater (and cheaper) than those discs, is chief among them. A huge portion of our lives — sending work emails, finding out whether it’s going to rain later, ordering a takeaway burrito, reading the awful news, paying for the Tube, scrolling through the endless stream of TikTok, and all the rest — now relies on a handful of tech companies who will inevitably have the occasional hiccup and, as a result, bring our lives to a deadening halt.

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said the issue that affected Spotify, Discord, Wikipedia and other Internet platforms appeared to be a Google Cloud problem and ...

Earlier, the company tweeted that it was looking into technical issues disrupting its service. (Bloomberg) -- Spotify said it has resolved technical issues that resulted in service disruptions for its users. Spotify Says Technical Issues Are Resolved

So, it should come as no surprise that music streaming services and apps like Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, and others are so popular. And speaking of Spotify, ...

all my friends who use Spotify: FBEHLBFHULQABHFNEWAILBEDHFN SPOTIFY IS DOWN me who uses Apple Music: well... all my friends who use Spotify: FBEHLBFHULQABHFNEWAILBEDHFN SPOTIFY IS DOWN me who uses Apple Music: well... Oh, and if you’re Apple Music people, we’d love to hear how you were rubbing it in everyone's faces. But back to Spotify. On Down Detector, users reported the outage in about 30 minutes, nearly 70,000 people said. Thanks for your reports!” In about an hour, they managed to fix the issues and let everyone know that if they continue to have problems, they should get in touch with another dedicated Spotify account, Spotify Cares. Its job is to let people know if their favorite music streaming service is experiencing any hiccups. View more comments View more comments I live alone, so the silence would otherwise be deafening. View more comments Bored Panda has collected the best of the best memes and reactions that we could get our hands on and created a lovely curated list for you to enjoy. So, it should come as no surprise that music streaming services and apps like Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, and others are so popular.

Subscribers claimed to have issues streaming music, accessing their accounts after being auto-logged out and having their passwords reset. Spotify quickly ...

— Spotify Status (@SpotifyStatus)March 8, 2022 — Spotify Status (@SpotifyStatus)March 8, 2022 Spotify quickly responded via their Spotify Status ( @SpotifyStatus) twitter, confirming the outages.

Spotify was experiencing widespread technical problems Tuesday, as users complained of access issues across its app and website.

Spotify is the industry’s biggest music and audio streaming service. “Something’s not quite right, and we’re looking into it. It may take some time to get things up again.” On Spotify’s mobile app, users saw a message saying, “You’ve been logged out. Another one, which displayed when Spotify users tried to launch songs on the company’s site, said, “We’re all mixed up. Among the errors encountered by users was a message saying that their username and password were incorrect. User complaints about Spotify began to spike at around 1:10 p.m. ET, according to monitoring site Downdetector. It was not immediately clear what caused the technical problems.

Discord experienced similar problems, with both outages linked to Google Cloud. Both Spotify and Discord are now back online. Here's what went wrong, and what ...

We have identified a probable root cause and will be publishing an incident report within the next several days.” Google Cloud said: “The issue with traffic director has been confirmed to be caused by a recent release; the release has been rolled back and customers can now start using traffic director. An issue with an update to Google Cloud’s traffic director was believing to be at fault, before the company rolled it back to its previous version.