Spotify goes down: What we know, plus our favorite alternatives to try

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If your Spotify is having issues, you're not alone. Thousands of radical are reporting problems with the euphony streaming app.

Earlier this morning, societal media was flooded with frustrated comments arsenic users began reporting issues with streaming euphony connected the fashionable service. For some, the app would load, but songs wouldn't play. For others, the app wouldn't load astatine all. The contented seems to beryllium affecting each mentation of Spotify, including the app, the web player, and the desktop app.

Spotify is investigating

Spotify confirmed the issue conscionable earlier 9am ET, penning connected X, "We're alert of immoderate issues close present and are checking them out!" The Spotify enactment page aboriginal explained, "We're seeing reports from users that the app isn't loading decently oregon that they're experiencing playback issues. Others study that they're having issues accessing the Support site."

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Reports connected DownDetector.com spiked astatine the aforesaid time, reaching astir 50,000 reports conscionable earlier 10am. Outage reports were connected the diminution by 11am, but that could beryllium due to the fact that users are either bushed of reporting the occupation oregon nary longer consciousness the request to.

The institution hasn't explained what caused the contented oregon erstwhile it expects to reconstruct service. By 10:30am, speculation was swirling that the contented was the effect of a hack, but SpotifyStatus connected X says that's not true.

With more than 675 cardinal users, Spotify is the world's astir fashionable euphony streaming app.

Worthwhile alternatives

If you're looking for alternatives, Apple Music and YouTube Music are the adjacent astir fashionable options, followed by Tidal and Qobuz. Of course, if you don't usage those services, your algorithm won't beryllium arsenic perfectly tuned arsenic your Spotify, but it'll beryllium bully capable to get you done the day.

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