To be fair, Spotify is doing something pretty magical here. I can’t figure out how they usually start tracks playing within what feels like microseconds after I choose them.
Pre caching? Yes but sometimes I don’t see how it could have reasonably guessed that I might play that particular song, like when I start typing to search and then stab at an entry in the results.
Surely they also want to be doing some buffering, so if they are pre caching a tiny bit of songs then they need to load the next piece of data quickly before I’ve heard the first part, but there is no obvious issue where this fails, as I might expect to hear.
Also when I seek in a song it’s almost always instant. They have the whole song quickly enough for the whole thing to be seekable?
If they were just relying on great latency and bandwidth then there should be a lot more issues with the audio pausing or dropping out.
Pre caching? Yes but sometimes I don’t see how it could have reasonably guessed that I might play that particular song, like when I start typing to search and then stab at an entry in the results.
Surely they also want to be doing some buffering, so if they are pre caching a tiny bit of songs then they need to load the next piece of data quickly before I’ve heard the first part, but there is no obvious issue where this fails, as I might expect to hear.
Also when I seek in a song it’s almost always instant. They have the whole song quickly enough for the whole thing to be seekable?
If they were just relying on great latency and bandwidth then there should be a lot more issues with the audio pausing or dropping out.