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ARCHIVO – Esta fotografía de archivo del 20 de marzo de 2018 muestra la aplicación Spotify en un iPad en Baltimore. (Foto AP/Patrick Semansky,archivo)
ARCHIVO – Esta fotografía de archivo del 20 de marzo de 2018 muestra la aplicación Spotify en un iPad en Baltimore. (Foto AP/Patrick Semansky,archivo)
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NEW YORK (AP) — Spotify experienced a widespread outage Wednesday — with tens of thousands of s reporting problems with the popular music and audio streamer. But the platform said it was back up and running hours later.

“All clear — thanks for your patience,” Spotify wrote on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, just after noon E.T. The company pointed to its , @SpotifyCares, for s who might need further assistance.

Earlier in the day, many Spotify s said that they were having difficulty loading both the app and desktop site, playing or hearing songs and using its search function. In addition to loading and playback issues, downtime updates noted that some s were also having problems accessing the platform’s site.

Spotify told The Associated Press that the outage began around 6:20 a.m. ET on Wednesday — but said it was “back up and functioning normally” by 11:45 a.m. ET.

Outage reports appeared to peak just after 9:30 a.m. ET, when more 48,000 s shared problems with Spotify, per data from Downdetector. As of the early afternoon, just under 1,500 reports lingered.

Spotify did not immediately provide more information about what might have caused the outage. But the Stockholm-based company previously said that “reports of this being a security hack are completely inaccurate.”

Spotify currently boasts having a total of more than 675 million s around the world, including 263 million subscribers across over 180 markets.

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