It’s Friday evening within the US, and for some time there, the music was not taking part in on Spotify for many individuals. Customers reported streams all of a sudden stopped, and for individuals who’ve logged out, some say they’ll’t log in once more.

The outage has garnered over 30,000 stories on DownDetector.com, beginning simply earlier than 8PM ET and rising sharply since then. A standing web page for the corporate’s net API signifies a “minor” partial outage affecting solely the participant itself, which is in step with what we’re seeing — however that’s additionally an important a part of Spotify.

The Spotify Standing Twitter account acknowledged the problems simply earlier than 9PM ET, tweeting, “we’re trying into it,” and ultimately adopted up at 11:16PM ET with a publish saying issues “are trying a lot better now.”

The final time we famous this sort of service-wide outage for Spotify, a Google Cloud drawback was the wrongdoer, however to date, there’s no indication of a bigger cloud or routing subject which may have impacted different companies.

If you happen to nonetheless can’t stream your music, you might have to cross the aux twine to somebody who doesn’t have a Spotify subscription (they’ll be straightforward to determine, they’re the one ones who didn’t publish a Spotify Wrapped picture on social media a couple of weeks in the past), or do one thing as archaic as counting on downloaded MP3s or some kind of bodily media.

Replace 11:25PM ET: Up to date with Spotify’s message that service seems to have been restored.