Re:Spotify excessively writing to drive
by voltagex_ on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @05:55PM
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That's a pretty cool fix. I wonder how they found that. This also highlights another issue with closed source software (and a few open source apps too): complete opaqueness. Yeah, hide the logging and status by default but at least give me a way to see what's actually going on. The Spotify Android app is worse. I wonder if it also suffers from this issue (I swapped to Apple Music after losing all of my offline tracks in Spotify again)
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Re:Spotify excessively writing to drive
by 72deluxe on Thursday November 10, 2016 @05:05AM
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They probably just monitored what files the spotify client had open, or on Windows uses something like Process Monitor and monitored the program's activities. It would have seen a file open command pretty soon.
And once they saw it open the sqlite.db, all they needed to do was run sqlite3 on the command line against the DB file and see if there was history in the file.
It is possible that the Android client does the same as sqlite3 is the underlying database format for apps and is very easy to use.