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Re:How Spotify Works by megaman821 on Friday November 25, 2011 @10:04AM (#3277187)
I choose Rdio over Spotify because it has a web client which probably means they couldn't leverage p2p even if they wanted to (without using a browser plugin).
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Re:How Spotify Works by Zirro on Friday November 25, 2011 @12:44PM (#3277649)
That's interesting. One of the main reasons I use* Spotify is because it has a native client and not a web interface.

*I'm actually currently in a period when I listen to music which is likely to never show up at any professional music service, but when I feel the need for mainstream music again, Spotify will probably be my choice for several reasons including the above, despite their recent Facebook-login only policy (which doesn't affect me, but still bothers me a bit).

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Re:How Spotify Works by eps on Friday November 25, 2011 @01:25PM (#3277785)
Is there any Flash involved? One of the biggest features in Flash 10 was the addition of p2p streaming.
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Re:How Spotify Works by chrischen on Friday November 25, 2011 @04:54PM (#3278348)
Upgrading flash does ask me to close Spotify.
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Re:How Spotify Works by jorangreef on Friday November 25, 2011 @02:41PM (#3277997)
P2P in Chrome is around the corner: http://www.webrtc.org
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