Tens of 1000’s of Spotify customers round world report issues

Tens of 1000’s of Spotify customers all over the world have reported being unable to stream music on the app.

Downdetector, which tracks platforms, confirmed greater than 48,000 outage stories for Spotify worldwide at on Wednesday afternoon.

Within the UK, the variety of folks reporting that Spotify was not functioning peaked at about 1.30pm, after issues started half-hour earlier. By 3pm, the quantity had fallen to about 10,000.

Spotify wrote on X: “We’re conscious of some points proper now and are checking them out.”

The Sweden-based streaming platform didn’t present additional data on what has brought on the issue, or for a way lengthy its providers could also be affected.

Spotify, which has greater than 675 million customers worldwide, instructed the BBC “the problem with search has been addressed” and it was rolling out an replace to its customers.

Customers mentioned they had been nonetheless in a position to play music they’d downloaded on to their gadgets, nevertheless they had been unable to view artists or use the search perform on the app. Others mentioned the platform was sluggish or unresponsive.

After making an attempt to seek for music, Spotify seems to trip, displaying the message “one thing went improper” with a refresh button.

Many customers expressed their frustration on social media, together with that the outage had interrupted their health club classes or examine routines.