4 ms·

“Stop Spotify from waking computer up”

39 points by rplnt 11y ago

rplnt 11y ago
I guess to have their p2p streaming active? Or do they do some computation on clients? Either way, it's very shady.
- mintplant 11y ago
  Or it's just a bug. https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/11368 https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/11368 "Never attribute to malice..." and all that.
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- em3rgent0rdr 11y ago
  I heard that spotify shut down their p2p streaming in April last year. I don't think most end users were even aware that spotify was using their users' computers and upstream bandwidth, though. I wouldn't be surprised if spotify is doing something else now under the covers, even though this sleep issue seems to be just a bug with boost.
jensnockert 11y ago
Yeah, started happening to me last week (roughly?) Seems like either a shitty business decision, or really terrible QA.
- Velox 11y ago
  That seems a bit unreasonable. How many people have as part of their tests "Put the computer to sleep and make sure we don't accidentally wake it up"? I could understand if they had some hardware or software with that specific feature, but in general, it would be a waste of time.
  - hugs 11y ago
    Well, they now have a business case to write that test. And if I was in test automation there, I'd enjoy working on this one.
    - rplnt 11y ago
      And that test could be reduced to "Check if we set up any timers", no complicated sleeping/waking thing.
the_mitsuhiko 11y ago
It's a bug in boost which spotify uses: https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/11368 https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/11368
- tedunangst 11y ago
  Back when I was a kid we called sleep() and we liked it.
- sorenjan 11y ago
  The guy with the pull request[0] that fixes the bug is team lead for Spotify's desktop client. [0] https://github.com/boostorg/thread/pull/67 https://github.com/boostorg/thread/pull/67
  - TazeTSchnitzel 11y ago
    I like that they tried to use ReactOS and WINE as a reference!
halo 11y ago
Thank you so much for posting this. My PC suddenly started waking up from sleep, I couldn't figure out why (powercfg or the event log were no help) and it has been driving me crazy. Looks like Spotify was the cause!
- voltagex_ 11y ago
  I wonder if rohitab.com/apimonitor would see some kind of call that could be used identify Spotify as the culprit. More and more these days I'm having to turn to debuggers and tracers to find out what my computer is really doing.
- rplnt 11y ago
  Actually I noticed it's spotify by using powercfg lastwake, then googled around and found that they have a wake up timer set up. But took me a while, thought it was a network, then mouse.. nothing in event log.
jmcgough 11y ago
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Desktop-Linux-Windows-Web/Windows-Spotify-wakes-computer-from-sleep/m-p/1212180#M140525 https://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Desktop-Linux-Windows-... provides better context
bru_ 11y ago
Why would you want to sleep when you can listen to Spotify some more?

39 points by rplnt 11y ago

rplnt 11y ago

I guess to have their p2p streaming active? Or do they do some computation on clients? Either way, it's very shady.

mintplant 11y ago
Or it's just a bug. https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/11368 https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/11368 "Never attribute to malice..." and all that.
- deleted 11y ago
  [deleted]
em3rgent0rdr 11y ago
I heard that spotify shut down their p2p streaming in April last year. I don't think most end users were even aware that spotify was using their users' computers and upstream bandwidth, though. I wouldn't be surprised if spotify is doing something else now under the covers, even though this sleep issue seems to be just a bug with boost.

jensnockert 11y ago

Yeah, started happening to me last week (roughly?) Seems like either a shitty business decision, or really terrible QA.

Velox 11y ago
That seems a bit unreasonable. How many people have as part of their tests "Put the computer to sleep and make sure we don't accidentally wake it up"? I could understand if they had some hardware or software with that specific feature, but in general, it would be a waste of time.
- hugs 11y ago
  Well, they now have a business case to write that test. And if I was in test automation there, I'd enjoy working on this one.
  - rplnt 11y ago
    And that test could be reduced to "Check if we set up any timers", no complicated sleeping/waking thing.

the_mitsuhiko 11y ago

It's a bug in boost which spotify uses: https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/11368 https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/11368

tedunangst 11y ago
Back when I was a kid we called sleep() and we liked it.
sorenjan 11y ago
The guy with the pull request[0] that fixes the bug is team lead for Spotify's desktop client. [0] https://github.com/boostorg/thread/pull/67 https://github.com/boostorg/thread/pull/67
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y ago
  I like that they tried to use ReactOS and WINE as a reference!

halo 11y ago

Thank you so much for posting this. My PC suddenly started waking up from sleep, I couldn't figure out why (powercfg or the event log were no help) and it has been driving me crazy. Looks like Spotify was the cause!

voltagex_ 11y ago
I wonder if rohitab.com/apimonitor would see some kind of call that could be used identify Spotify as the culprit. More and more these days I'm having to turn to debuggers and tracers to find out what my computer is really doing.
rplnt 11y ago
Actually I noticed it's spotify by using powercfg lastwake, then googled around and found that they have a wake up timer set up. But took me a while, thought it was a network, then mouse.. nothing in event log.

jmcgough 11y ago

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Desktop-Linux-Windows-Web/Windows-Spotify-wakes-computer-from-sleep/m-p/1212180#M140525 https://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Desktop-Linux-Windows-... provides better context

bru_ 11y ago

Why would you want to sleep when you can listen to Spotify some more?