Spotify downloads blank songs

[mazzzzz]

The Wifi at my work requires you to login before being able to browse the web.  If you attempt to visit any url without first signing in it redirects you to a "webpage unavailable" message.  I would expect Spotify to fail to download songs, but it doesn't.  Instead any song which downloads while I'm on the Wifi but not signed in plays with no audio, and sense there isn't an easy way to redownload a single song I end up having to redownload the playlist of some thousand songs.

It wouldn't be a particularly hard fix, validate the download with some hash on completion, and don't attempt a redownload until the network state changes if it failed.

[Joe]

It's pretty much a corner case but why not post something in the ideas section?

[mazzzzz]

It's not much of a corner case.  This can happen partially whenever wifi is spotty, or a user's internet goes down for a few seconds.  It seems Spotify doesn't validate downloads at all, which is a pretty huge issue.

Also, thanks for the repost suggestion.  https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-Ideas/Spotify-downloads-blank-songs/idi-p/729665