Comments on: Spotify. All your bandwidth are belong to us?

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:58:17 +0000

Hi,

From reading the Spotify boards, they plan to implement a less “naive” use of the bandwidth. They’ve alluded to monitoring network usage and sending less data if close to capacity – How exactly it’s going to determine capacity if a local network is involved, funky traffic shaping at the ISP, etc… I’m not sure.

They seem to be adverse to exposing too much control to the user (Which I can understand if not agree with – they don’t want to be stuck as a couple of streaming servers with no P2P support)

For the record it doesn’t seem to be too much of an issue for me but I do have a 20MB connection so I don’t tend to notice…

By: steve.freeman

steve.freeman — Sun, 24 May 2009 13:26:06 +0000

@Phil. Perhaps I should cough up for a faster connection

By: Phil

Phil — Sat, 23 May 2009 17:06:43 +0000

I’ve noticed how online gameplay quality is drasticly reduced due to Spotify using all my upload which is just around 1mbit/sec. It is really pissing me off since I never noticed this before I started paying. My dilemma is between using Spotify and risking lag or buying/downloading more music … Imho it is a real shame it sucks ones connection this much.

I googled the problem and this page was among the first hits…

By: David Harvey

David Harvey — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:53:46 +0000

Nah, it is a P2P network, so you will almost certainly end up serving other users. http://getsatisfaction.com/spotify/topics/how_exactly_does_spotify_utilise_my_internet_connection

It’s why I’m holding back … though Skype works pretty much the same way and I use that (though I do know people whose bandwidth has been hosed by Skype ..)

By: Marcus Ahnve

Marcus Ahnve — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 14:44:25 +0000

They cache the songs on disk.