Audio downloads stops randomly #299

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opened 2025-09-05 10:32:07 -04:00 by roebuckliam500-bit · 1 comment
roebuckliam500-bit commented 2025-09-05 10:32:07 -04:00 (Migrated from github.com)

Hey guys,

Whenever I download anything after about 20 songs or so it just stops downloading, I'm wondering if I'm doing anything wrong? I have tried everything, max_wait_time and also download_real_time and the same thing happens.

No errors come up, it just stops downloading and won't restart until I close Powershell and restart and it skips until where it got to last time.

Any help would be appreciated

Hey guys, Whenever I download anything after about 20 songs or so it just stops downloading, I'm wondering if I'm doing anything wrong? I have tried everything, max_wait_time and also download_real_time and the same thing happens. No errors come up, it just stops downloading and won't restart until I close Powershell and restart and it skips until where it got to last time. Any help would be appreciated
lolo83560 commented 2025-09-05 13:42:41 -04:00 (Migrated from github.com)

I think this is a common problem maybe related to this
I experience the same +/- though in my case that starts after 50+ downloads.

Seems on Spotify side there is some sort of rate / connections limitation which triggers after a couple dozen downloads and there is nothing you can do except "letting it cooling down" and rerun later (or mod' your code to implement some retry forever loop)

Also that behavior looks variable with time of the day, moonphase, or something ... maybe just a question of server loading on Spotify side, maybe they reduce the bandwidth of some to "heavy users" to better allocate BW to others ... just my take.

I think this is a common problem maybe related to [this](https://github.com/zotify-dev/zotify/issues/186) I experience the same +/- though in my case that starts after 50+ downloads. Seems on Spotify side there is some sort of rate / connections limitation which triggers after a couple dozen downloads and there is nothing you can do except "letting it cooling down" and rerun later (or mod' your code to implement some retry forever loop) Also that behavior looks variable with time of the day, moonphase, or something ... maybe just a question of server loading on Spotify side, maybe they reduce the bandwidth of some to "heavy users" to better allocate BW to others ... just my take.
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