If there was even the slightest bit of obscure and dangerous and unsupported configuration options that left a backdoor to being able to turn off the p2p, I would love it. But our business cannot accept the risk of peer to peer traffic on our protected network, so away they go. People want to use these programs, and have valid reasons to use them. We run into this issue with Skype constantly too. But there's no way to turn off the p2p nature of the program. They've paid for it and they want to listen to it. Some people don't know it's p2p, some don't care. And if it's flagged as a high priority, I have to report them to HR. And when it gets flagged, I have to make that action stop. And since Spotify is peer-to-peer (and p2p applications are against the policy), it gets flagged in our security monitoring tool. The problem is, some of them like Spotify. What sucks is that here at work (I work in corporate information security), we have developers who love to listen to music when they're programming. My hopes are fairly low that they will resolve it any time soon. Spotify have been inactive on this issue to date. Another cost to service is fine.įor paid members though there needs to be an option to drastically tune down the upload rate and even disable it if you are not listening to music yourself.
They are using the service for free and get a few ad's. Launching in game radio though would be fine.Īsking free members to suck it up is fine. I remember when I used to play counter-strike and I would have to shut down Spotify as it would kill my ping and make the game lag terribly. (someone reported this doesn't work) Wouldn't this mean a big spike in downloads as none of your songs are cached?
Do social options work in offline mode? Not much point if they do as you would need to go online to play any new tracks.Ĥ) Set cache size really small. Unlimited members pay for the service and cannot download tracks so not much use to those. (Seems to be invite-only beta - US Only)ģ) Use offline mode.
So the solutions outlined by Spotify are.Ģ) Use the web player.