HOW TO DESIGN A STREAMING MUSIC SYSTEM - SK REDDY

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 READING NOTES

  • Aim of the article is to simplify the complexities of designing and creating streaming systems like Spotify
  • (Psychoanalytic)- Music has an important affect on human beings, calming purposes on children and animals- an emotional impact.
  • 317 billion streams in 2015 on all ongoing streaming platforms at the time 
  • In 2016, downloads went down by 10% and streaming went up by 96% and the total world digital music revenue was $6.7billion.
Features found on streaming platforms:
  • Offline streaming where users can download songs onto the platform to listen without internet 
  • Radio channels can also be found on streaming services that not only follow music genres but also moods and activities (gym, studying etc)
  • Company curated playlists made available to all users 
  • Users are able to share their playlists 
  • "Lossless compression: this allows users that download to use less memory without losing quality of the songs
  • Allows users to create their own personal playlists
  • Human curated playlists (picked by music experts, musicians etc)
The rest of the article is not particularly relevant to my essay.

Reddy, S.K. (2016)How to design for a streaming music system. Available at: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-design-streaming-music-system-s-k-reddy (Date accessed 5th October)

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