topic Re: Show me how to disable upload / p2p in Desktop (Windows)

Show me how to disable upload / p2p

vigrond — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 19:43:26 GMT

Hi, I pay Spotify $10/month (premium)

Please tell me how to disable upload / p2p stuff that makes me lag every 5 minutes. Can't enjoy playing games while listening to music.

I have AT&T U-verse with a crappy 1.5mpbs upload. I also heard that AT&T throttles you if you use p2p.

So I need to disable this feature of spotify, I only want to stream music, not upload anything or use p2p networks.

I have tried offline mode, and it doesn't work.

If this is not possible, I will cancel my subscription.

Thanks

Re: Show me how to disable upload / p2p

Peter__ — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 19:51:44 GMT

Offline mode should work (File > Offline Mode), unfortunately there is no way to simply stop the p2p in the desktop client online.

The web player doesn't use p2p if that works better for you?

Re: Show me how to disable upload / p2p

vigrond — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 20:05:28 GMT

I would rather not use the web player as the browser hogs resources.

So if offline mode doesn't stop p2p, then it's not really offline mode?

Re: Show me how to disable upload / p2p

user-removed — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 20:07:41 GMT

Mobile apps doesn't use P2P. And these music systems with Connect.

Re: Show me how to disable upload / p2p

Peter__ — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 20:26:55 GMT

Offline mode should kill all connections, are you still seeing network activity coming from Spotify?

Re: Show me how to disable upload / p2p

vigrond — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 20:45:53 GMT

Yes.

Well I found how how to block the p2p network. That is sad that I have to resort to using a firewall and port blocking, as a premium subscriber. But that's business for you I guess

I'll post the solution on my blog, just google my name + blog

Re: Show me how to disable upload / p2p

rahvakunstnik — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 15:04:17 GMT

I blocked ANY upload with NetLimiter 3 PRO ( http://www.netlimiter.com/ - here is free trial )

But my question is: how DISABLE cache folder, this crap eat my laptop HDD! :@

Sorry, my english is bad.

Re: Show me how to disable upload / p2p

Joe — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 16:03:52 GMT

You can reduce the cache size from spotify/preferences.