Huge fan here, sad to see people so up in arms. Spotify offers two valuable things: of course, every song ever with no need to tag them, manage your library etc etc

But most importantly it’s insanely good for discovering new cool music.

It’s the latter - discovery - that I pay for. Song radio, artist radio, “discover weekly” get me through the day.

Spotify outages are rare enough no one thought it could go down. They’re doing well. Consider: if you manage your own music library there’ll be days the hard drive doesn’t work, vpn dies etc etc. - to operate at 99.99% reliability you’re only allowed 4 minutes’ downtime per month. If you dick around fixing your NAS for an hour you just blew your whole year’s downtime budget.

So for Spotify to go so long without downtime is amazing.

Looking forward to the postmortem!