If you tried to launch Spotify today to listen to a song or podcast, only to find the player constantly loading, you’re not alone: Spotify is down. The company confirmed the issue on X Via its “Spotify Support” page, posting “We’re aware of some issues with the app right now and are investigating!”
However, you don’t need to see this X announcement to know about the outage. Anyone attempting to access the service at this time will face disruption. I can make it to my library, but when I try to stream a song, I see the playbar loading again and again. DownDetector, owned by Ziff Davis, the parent company of Lifehacker. Currently displays thousands of user reports confirming this.
What do you think so far?
Service outages are a dime a dozen these days. Most platforms and services experience downtime at some point, and, in most cases, the connection is restored relatively quickly. It does not appear to be an issue with a cloud service provider like AWS or Cloudflare, as DownDetector is not showing many other apps and platforms having service issues at this time. We don’t know exactly what’s causing this Spotify outage, but, barring some unique event, the company’s software development team will soon isolate the problem, and release a patch to fix it. I think Spotify users will be streaming again soon.
