Is your Spotify regularly "pausing" itself? The problem is fixable, let Spotify know!

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Spotify Akamai CDN buffering

In South Africa, Akamai is routing audio-ak-spotify-com.akamaized.net strangely, causing constant buffering on partial downloads. For example, local server 197.80.130.136 causes issues, but routed to international server 92.123.140.88 works better. It seems to swap between these at random. DNS...
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Basically, the issue is that some of the local servers (operated by an organisation called "Akamai") that Spotify uses are problematic, as a customer of Akamai, Spotify can from their side ask Akamai to look into this problem, see more context here:

Web sQuad ISP - Feedback Thread #2

YouTube being a bit flakey for anyone else, getting some constant buffering at the moment. Afrihost Frogfoot here, I noticed it just now. Yup, same here. Very inconsistent Reports rolling in here. We are investigating. Our GGCs aren't in the mix; so would be something from peering side...
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It seems that Akamai is ignoring requests from ISPs, so pressure from Spotify's side would help:

Spotify regularly pausing

Ever since the recent cable breakage my Spotify often pauses while playing music. It seems like when it's struggling to stream that I'm talking to an MWeb server: So the issue may not be with Cool Ideas. Everything seems to be working perfectly, for example I do hours of Teams video calls a...
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I have had spotify going all day and haven't had any pauses.

Is it new music you are listening to?
 
I have pauses when at work on the laptop, but then my phone works fine.
I have had it a few times at home on the tv stick and even on the laptop. been a few weeks without issue.
work is running on Vox.
home is metrofiber + RSAweb

been about a week since the last time I had the issue
 
Scary_Turtle said:
I have had spotify going all day and haven't had any pauses.

Is it new music you are listening to?
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It's not new songs, seems to be pretty random when it happens.

It only started around the same time as the cable break, but that should now be sorted AFAIK, hence my looking deeper into the issue.

But based on comments in my other thread, it seems to be affecting quite a few people and it seems solvable if the correct people can be arsed to look into the problem, hence my trying a simple thing to get people's attention.
 
I listen to spotify around 140k minutes a year and have never had this issue
 
I only listen to Spotify in the car and it has also happened a few times. I was just blaming MTN.
 
League of Legends updates also do the same thing. Routing to 197-80-131-208.jhb.mweb.co.za:443 and similar servers, when I'm on Cool Ideas.
 
PaulMurkin said:
Ad hominem attacks I see. Someone needed to curb your delusions of grandeur a bit.
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Me to other people: If you have this particular problem, spend two minutes of your time trying this, it has an (admittedly very small) chance of helping.
You: Give up, don't bother, go somewhere else.

Like I said, you seem to a have defeatist attitude.
 
Zuldritch said:
Me to other people: If you have this particular problem, spend two minutes of your time trying this, it has an (admittedly very small) chance of helping.
You: Give up, don't bother, go somewhere else.

Like I said, you seem to a have defeatist attitude.
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Voting with my wallet is not a defeatist attitude.
 
Zuldritch said:
Press "Me Too" here:
community.spotify.com

Spotify Akamai CDN buffering

In South Africa, Akamai is routing audio-ak-spotify-com.akamaized.net strangely, causing constant buffering on partial downloads. For example, local server 197.80.130.136 causes issues, but routed to international server 92.123.140.88 works better. It seems to swap between these at random. DNS...
community.spotify.com community.spotify.com

Basically, the issue is that some of the local servers (operated by an organisation called "Akamai") that Spotify uses are problematic, as a customer of Akamai, Spotify can from their side ask Akamai to look into this problem, see more context here:

Web sQuad ISP - Feedback Thread #2

YouTube being a bit flakey for anyone else, getting some constant buffering at the moment. Afrihost Frogfoot here, I noticed it just now. Yup, same here. Very inconsistent Reports rolling in here. We are investigating. Our GGCs aren't in the mix; so would be something from peering side...
mybroadband.co.za mybroadband.co.za

It seems that Akamai is ignoring requests from ISPs, so pressure from Spotify's side would help:

Spotify regularly pausing

Ever since the recent cable breakage my Spotify often pauses while playing music. It seems like when it's struggling to stream that I'm talking to an MWeb server: So the issue may not be with Cool Ideas. Everything seems to be working perfectly, for example I do hours of Teams video calls a...
mybroadband.co.za mybroadband.co.za
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No. I make my own entertainment

 
I've had this issue for months on my work laptop (not anywhere else because I download the songs for offline play and thus its not streaming). Unfortunately the laptop does not allow me to install the Spotify app and download for offline play so my only option is browser streaming.

I thought the issue was some of the junk programs that are installed to block certain sites etc.

The song progress bar will advance but no music, then when music starts it resets to the beginning. Sometimes a few seconds of silence, other times minutes. Now and then it gets so bad I give up and go to Youtube which works 100% even though it is streaming video as well.
 
Syphonx said:
I've had this issue for months on my work laptop (not anywhere else because I download the songs for offline play and thus its not streaming). Unfortunately the laptop does not allow me to install the Spotify app and download for offline play so my only option is browser streaming.

I thought the issue was some of the junk programs that are installed to block certain sites etc.

The song progress bar will advance but no music, then when music starts it resets to the beginning. Sometimes a few seconds of silence, other times minutes. Now and then it gets so bad I give up and go to Youtube which works 100% even though it is streaming video as well.
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