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Re:Spotify launches in the US by mzl on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @02:11AM (#2806190)
You can't get the same level of service in a webapp. From technical papers on Spotify, one can see that they get an average of about 250ms to start playing a song, but still their own servers only need to stream about 20% or so IIRC of the total music played.
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Re:Spotify launches in the US by revorad on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @03:35AM (#2806391)
So the spotify client is doing P2P stuff completely skipping the servers? Why can't it be done in Javascript?
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Re:Spotify launches in the US by mzl on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @02:24AM (#2811016)
The client does P2P and local caching for offloading the servers. Apart from the technical issues in doing it browser side (for example, opening TCP connections), I seriously doubt that it could be done with the same level of efficiency.
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