- Spotify’s player offers more functionality
- To set moods or create ambience.
- Engaging in an immersive user experience.
source: https://usabilitygeek.com/ux-case-study-spotify-vs-apple-music-mobile-apps/
- The median for Spotify customers is $10.04
- Family Plan:$14.99
- Student Plan: 50% off a Premium subscription
source: https://www.priceintelligently.com/blog/spotify-pricing-strategy
- 160 kbps (kilobits per second)
- High quality streaming:up to 320 kbps
- High quality available for free version, extreme quality only available for Premium
source: https://www.businessinsider.com/set-spotify-streaming-quality-to-extreme-2015-6
- Over three billion playlists
- Word2Vec
- Tracks that occur together amongst different playlists are going to be similar to each other
source: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/evolution-spotify-arch/
- Collaborative filtering
- Natural language processing
- Raw audio models
source: https://medium.com/datadriveninvestor/behind-spotify-recommendation-engine-a9b5a27a935
- Playlists can be shared with, and followed by, other users, and they can be made available offline and used to seed other Spotify services, like radio
- Drag-and-drop actions
- Public vs Private settings
source: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/general/guides/working-with-playlists/
- Free: 15 playlists, ads at every couple of songs, Discover Weekly, Daily Mix, Release Radar, Curated playlists
- Premium: Unlimited skips, download tracks for offline listening
- Can turn into an offline music service rather than an online music streaming service.
source: https://www.howtogeek.com/350288/spotify-free-vs-premium-is-it-worth-upgrading/
- More than 100 million users worldwide
- Expects to have 222 to 228 million user
- ^107 and 110 million paid subscribers
source: https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/29/18522297/spotify-100-million-users-apple-music-podcasting-free-users-advertising-voice-speakers
- https://api.spotify.com
- API provides a set of endpoints
- source: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/
