How Spotify Works

Re:How Spotify Works by adaml_623 on Friday November 25, 2011 @11:40AM (#3277470)

"Only 8.8% of music playback comes from Spotify’s servers. The rest comes from the peer-to-peer network (35.8%) or your local cache (55.4%). The exception here is Spotify on smartphones, which gets all the music directly from the Spotify servers."

That point about doesn't quite make sense. Most of the time on my phone I'm playing from the local cache in off line mode. So it all comes from the servers originally but 98% of it is repeated plays from the local cache.

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Re:How Spotify Works by vecter on Friday November 25, 2011 @11:49AM (#3277487)

I'm assuming they mean, of the actual bits that have ever been downloaded, where does it come from?

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Re:How Spotify Works by estel on Friday November 25, 2011 @05:28PM (#3278417)

There's a distinction between songs which are from playlists explicitly "available offline" and songs in Spotify's cache. Presumably the mobile version doesn't have a cache for non-downloaded songs.

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Re:How Spotify Works by bookwormAT on Saturday November 26, 2011 @07:38AM (#3279687)

I think the Android version does have a cache beside the offline playlists. At least there is an option to set the size in settings.

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