Spotify temporarily goes down as thousands of users report outage

Thousands of listeners were left without access to tunes and podcasts on Sunday after music streaming service Spotify was down temporarily on Sunday.

More than 40,000 people reported outages with the music platform on downdetector.com, a website that allows users to report problems with popular apps and services. Reports started spiking around 10:45 a.m. ET.

In Spotify's desktop app, some users were greeted with the error message, "Something went wrong," and attempts to play tracks were unsuccessful. Spotify's phone app was also unresponsive to some users.