Techno Frustration

I knocked up a script to download a number of large zip files from s3. Super simple with boto3 and Python but it was so effective at using my 100Mb/s network connection that everything else got knocked off the network including Chrome on the same PC. Luckily boto3 1.19.5 and later now support a bandwidth limit for s3 trasnfers so after adding that I was able to keep it at a sensible level. import boto3 from boto3.s3.transfer import TransferConfig print('boto3 version') print(boto3.__version__) # Download an S3 object - max_bandwidth is in Bytes per sec so 1024**2*5 is 5 MiB/s download_config = TransferConfig(max_bandwidth=1024**2*5) s3 = boto3.client('s3') s3_client = boto3.client('s3') s3_bucket = 'your_bucket_name' filename = 'your_file' with open(filename, 'wb') as f: print(f'Downloading {filename}') s3_client.download_fileobj(s3_bucket, filename_file, f, Config=download_config) See https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1

Spotify have added lyrics display on screen which supposedly have been rolled out globally. We found that it seemed to work on some of our devices by not others. Having logged out/in on different devices we confirmed it was an account rather than a device of app problem. There are suggestions online about needing to create a new account or reinstall the app but this is an unhelpful red herring. The solution is to email spotify support and to ask them to fix it. They need to do something their side that resolves the account setup which takes a few days. We had the problem on a family account, the main account was fine but one of our other accounts refused to show lyrics. A quick email to support@spotify.com followed by some clarification had it sorted in a couple of days.