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Would be decent of Spotify to tell you / ask you nicely. But if you're gaming, why not just quit Spotify and other programs you're not using?
by skreech 14y ago
Would be decent of Spotify to tell you / ask you nicely. But if you're gaming, why not just quit Spotify and other programs you're not using?
- pawelwentpawel 14y agoMaybe he is listening to music while gaming? Or uploading something completely else. It doesn't matter what he is doing, something like that shouldn't happen. And it's not just decent/nice to ask user if your app is about to suddenly use 100% of upload speed in the background - it's common sense.
- whaevr 14y agoWell I like to use Spotify for music to listen to while I game..which you know, when I thought the application just streamed I figured wouldnt have much an impact on the game. Im not saying using p2p in spotify is bad, I just want it to be more obvious and at least a way to control its max upload rate in the program itself. The fact that people need to download a 3rd party app to limit spotify from swamping their internet connection is stupid.
- nicholassmith 14y agoIt does actually say in the T&Cs that it's going to use you as a p2p node if I remember rightly, it's been a while since I've seen the header but it was listed as 'Computational resources'.
- freehunter 14y agoIt's really getting to the point where T&C should be standardized and any extra conditions they want to throw at you should be presented front and center.
- jlogsdon 14y agoYeah, and everyone reads those.
- nicholassmith 14y agoWell, you are kinda meant to read them. If you say you've read and agreed to something you don't have much scope for whinging.
- luser001 14y agoMaybe somebody else in the house is running Spotify? [See "bufferbloat": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2088389 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2088389]