Update (01/26/23 21:30): Spotify is working properly again. The company, however, has not provided further details of what happened. |
Spotify, the popular streaming music platform, It’s crashing all over the world. When trying to play any type of content, the application throws the message “Something did not go as it should”.
In other tests, as we can see on the screenshot, the playlists, search box, browse window and all other elements of Spotify do not load correctly.
Spotify is down and not working
The fall not only affects Spotify applications on different platforms, it also reaches the online player. The place open.spotify.com/which allows you to consume content from the browser, does not work either.
According to Downdetectora reference web page to know the status of different services that is fed with information from users, more than 35,000 people They reported bugs in the Spotify app.
The company, for its part, has used his Twitter account to acknowledge the problemalthough he has not provided details about the origin of it: “Something is not quite right, and we are investigating it. Thank you for your reports.”
Something’s not quite right, and we’re looking into it. Thanks for your reports!
— Spotify Status (@SpotifyStatus) January 26, 2023
As we say, at the moment the technical details of the fall that the streaming music giant is experiencing this Thursday are unknown. The problem could be due to failures in their systems or in any of their partners.
Part of Spotify’s cloud infrastructure depends on Google Cloud since 2016. Nevertheless, the status page of said service It does not indicate any type of problem in the regions in which it is operational.
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