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The largest subscription-based music streaming service in the world suffered a significant outage that locked international users out of their accounts for ...

Think of us as your eyes and ears. The web browser version of this said, “We’re all mixed up. When they did that, they were told Spotify didn’t recognise their email as having been associated with an account.

Spotify was experiencing widespread technical problems Tuesday, as users complained of access issues across its app and website.

Spotify is the industry’s biggest music and audio streaming service. “Something’s not quite right, and we’re looking into it. It may take some time to get things up again.” On Spotify’s mobile app, users saw a message saying, “You’ve been logged out. Another one, which displayed when Spotify users tried to launch songs on the company’s site, said, “We’re all mixed up. Among the errors encountered by users was a message saying that their username and password were incorrect. User complaints about Spotify began to spike at around 1:10 p.m. ET, according to monitoring site Downdetector. It was not immediately clear what caused the technical problems.

Discord experienced similar problems, with both outages linked to Google Cloud. Both Spotify and Discord are now back online. Here's what went wrong, and what ...

We have identified a probable root cause and will be publishing an incident report within the next several days.” Google Cloud said: “The issue with traffic director has been confirmed to be caused by a recent release; the release has been rolled back and customers can now start using traffic director. An issue with an update to Google Cloud’s traffic director was believing to be at fault, before the company rolled it back to its previous version.

If you can't connect to Spotify or Discord, then no, it's not just you or your internet connection. Both services have acknowledged they're having problems ...

Spotify didn’t go into detail, but a case study posted by Google Cloud confirms they’re also a customer and that may explain the sudden issues for both services. As of 2:39PM ET, Spotify Status tweeted that things are looking much better, and we’ve seen reports indicating that most people are back online. The Spotify Status account tweeted at 1:22PM ET that “we’re looking into it” but didn’t offer any other details about what’s going on.