Why is Spotify chugging upload bandwidth when it is not streaming?

Re:Why is Spotify chugging upload bandwidth when it is not s... by path411 on Thursday February 21, 2013 @01:00PM (#5258887)

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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Re:Why is Spotify chugging upload bandwidth when it is not s... by easy_rider on Thursday February 21, 2013 @01:16PM (#5258998)

I agree. I've been promoting spotify in word of mouth to my Friends. My co-workers all use it, which means a good chunk of our upstream bandwidth is swallowed by spotify? In any case they're being completely shady about it. I.e. not making any effort to define Spotify as a P2P service. Understandable in a marketing sense. Ethically questionable and actually upset since well. I pay a monthly fee and all..

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Re:Why is Spotify chugging upload bandwidth when it is not s... by Lockyy on Thursday February 21, 2013 @03:18PM (#5260042)

I am purely annoyed that I didn't know that it did this, I can't say whether this is my fault for being ignorant or theirs for not informing me but it worries me that I may have been putting unneeded load on networks that aren't mine, like my universities network.

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Re:Why is Spotify chugging upload bandwidth when it is not s... by Bockit on Thursday February 21, 2013 @01:06PM (#5258923)

Yeah. And on top of connection quality issues, some companies with bandwidth caps count uploads as well. I haven't really seen what kind of bandwidth would be used but it's something I'm going to check out and possibly warn some people I've recommended it to in the past.

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