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200ms latency Anyone know how spotify may have achieved this? There is no magic in this. 200ms is an eternity and would actually be considered rather poor per
by moe 11y ago
200ms latency
Anyone know how spotify may have achieved this?
There is no magic in this. 200ms is an eternity and would actually be considered rather poor performance.
Realistic latency is closer to 100ms for a cache miss (~40ms for your client to reach spotify plus another 40-60ms for their internal fetch).
You have to realize that music files are tiny and consume very little bandwidth by today's standards. All commercial music combined (roughly 30 million songs) fits into half a rack of storage.
- Agathos 11y agoWhile we're at it, why are we being told that the average human blink takes 400 msec? That's a pretty slow blink.
- Jarred 11y agoIt's more challenging considering that most of Spotify's traffic is P2P.
- moe 11y agomost of Spotify's traffic is P2P. They shut that down last year; https://torrentfreak.com/spotify-starts-shutting-down-its-massive-p2p-network-140416/ https://torrentfreak.com/spotify-starts-shutting-down-its-ma...