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Totally agree. I have subscriptions in both services, Apple Music and Spotify. Im still wondering how its possible that Spotify managed to handle smooth bufferi
by luigi23 9y ago
Totally agree. I have subscriptions in both services, Apple Music and Spotify. Im still wondering how its possible that Spotify managed to handle smooth buffering way more better than Apple. It works flawlessly, even when Im entering and leaving airplane mode during loading song. On Apple music, both on Mac and iPhone, it needs to prebuffer for few seconds and is laggy when I quickly skip songs. Just awful.
- ardit33 9y agoFormer Spotify engineer here. The reason you see Spotify excelling in streaming performance is that Spotify has both some very smart people working both in Europe and NYC to make that happen and Spotify made mobile streaming performance (to feel like a local file playback) a number one priority. Also apple's offering is a reaction to Spotify's success and it suffers the "sequel effect" where the me too product is not that good. Their previous model was track downloads. Also it is not a Big Corp vs Startup, but more of a team in a Big Corp vs well funded Startup that is dedicated to that mission. (I'd say Spotify is way past the startup stage so it is more of Big Corp doing many things vs Big Corp doing only one thing).