Is Spotify down? Thousands of users report problems with music streaming app

NEW YORK (AP) — Spotify appeared to be experiencing widespread technical issues Wednesday morning — with tens of thousands of users reporting problems with the popular music and audio streamer.

Many of those users said they were having difficulty loading both the app and website, playing or hearing songs and using its search function. But disruptions seemed to be on the decline as the day progressed.

As of around 10:45 a.m. ET Wednesday, Downdetector showed more than 20,000 outage reports for Spotify worldwide...