Spotify suffers global outage

Spotify users worldwide complained on Wednesday afternoon that they could not stream music and podcasts over the platform.

“Something’s not quite right, and we’re looking into it. Thanks for your reports!” the company said on Twitter at 14:18.

Around 30 minutes later, Spotify said its service was back up.

“Everything’s looking much better now! Give @SpotifyCares a shout if you still need help,” it said.

Attempting to stream a song on Spotify from South Africa failed.

“Spotify can’t play this right now. If you have the file on your computer you can import it,” an error message in its desktop player stated.

After several attempts to play different tracks from different playlists, Spotify did eventually play an advertisement, complete with a banner inside the player app.

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Spotify suffers global outage