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"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
by adaml_623 15y ago
"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.
- vecter 15y agoI'm assuming they mean, of the actual bits that have ever been downloaded, where does it come from?
- estel 15y agoThere'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.
- bookwormAT 15y agoI think the Android version does have a cache beside the offline playlists. At least there is an option to set the size in settings.