“Stop Spotify from waking computer up”

Back when I was a kid we called sleep() and we liked it.

The guy with the pull request[0] that fixes the bug is team lead for Spotify's desktop client.

[0] https://github.com/boostorg/thread/pull/67

I wonder if rohitab.com/apimonitor would see some kind of call that could be used identify Spotify as the culprit. More and more these days I'm having to turn to debuggers and tracers to find out what my computer is really doing.

Actually I noticed it's spotify by using powercfg lastwake, then googled around and found that they have a wake up timer set up.

But took me a while, thought it was a network, then mouse.. nothing in event log.

That seems a bit unreasonable. How many people have as part of their tests "Put the computer to sleep and make sure we don't accidentally wake it up"? I could understand if they had some hardware or software with that specific feature, but in general, it would be a waste of time.

Or it's just a bug.

https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/11368

"Never attribute to malice..." and all that.

I heard that spotify shut down their p2p streaming in April last year.

I don't think most end users were even aware that spotify was using their users' computers and upstream bandwidth, though. I wouldn't be surprised if spotify is doing something else now under the covers, even though this sleep issue seems to be just a bug with boost.