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What is your source for the music?
What is the source and format for all the music you get from the labels?
I mean... i can't really see 45 employees ripping tons of cd's! :)
I mean... i can't really see 45 employees ripping tons of cd's! :)
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We get files in lossless formats (flac, wma lossless, wav, apple lossless) from the labels.
The big labels (Universal, EMI, Sony, Warner) have their own tech departments. They encode to the standard "cd quality" directly from the master recordings, which are usually in even higher quality. No cds involved.
Some of the small labels are part of an aggregator, for instance The Orchard and PIAS. Small labels and aggregators usually use some kind of digital distribution platform. The Orchard has its own tech department and distribution platform, but others use for instance Consolidated Independent or Dicentia, but there are many many more. The small labels probably send their cds to the (possibly many different) digital distrubition platforms that they use, which then rips the cds and sends us the lossless files the metadata for the files.
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Inappropriate?We get files in lossless formats (flac, wma lossless, wav, apple lossless) from the labels.
The big labels (Universal, EMI, Sony, Warner) have their own tech departments. They encode to the standard "cd quality" directly from the master recordings, which are usually in even higher quality. No cds involved.
Some of the small labels are part of an aggregator, for instance The Orchard and PIAS. Small labels and aggregators usually use some kind of digital distribution platform. The Orchard has its own tech department and distribution platform, but others use for instance Consolidated Independent or Dicentia, but there are many many more. The small labels probably send their cds to the (possibly many different) digital distrubition platforms that they use, which then rips the cds and sends us the lossless files the metadata for the files.
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Oh yeah? And what about all the "scene-releases" available on Spotify? Are you sure that all releases have their respective owners (labels and artists) approval to be published in Spotify? -
Johan, from the beginning everything on Spotify came from various sources and now they are in the process of replacing and deleting. It can't be done at once so please be patient and calm down. See my reply in another subject about Stim-money.
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Inappropriate?Jo men ändå. Om ni "får filer" från bolagen är det ju ändå en gigantisk mängd filer att hantera. Har ni egna servrar för det? Har ni pryoelever från mediagymnasiet som jobbar gratis? När de stora skivbolagen lägger upp det själva, hur får ni access till det? Jag förstår FORTFARANDE inte...
(Börjar jag bli jobbig nu...?)
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Inappropriate?For all the people following these threads in English. the örjan, yes, we receive an enormous amount of files. Yes, we have our own servers, lots of them. No, we don't have lots of people putting all those files into Spotify. We do however have a few smart people who know how to create smart programs to make a computer handle it all for us.
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Inappropriate?Good awnsers. Thx :)
Are the tracks stored in a lossy format, or are they stored in a lossless format, and the magic is happening on the streaming servers?
I mean... do you have the posibility to just adjust the bitrate on the whole library if you want to (in the future for instance), or do you have to reencode every track?1 Comment Add a comment
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All signs point to the customer-facing servers storing them encrypted and encoded in the quality we receive, with the lossless files being stored elsewhere.
IIRC, during the closed beta, the songs were MP3s and were re-encoded towards the end of it.
Basically, having the songs pre-encoded and encrypted before the songs get sent to us customers is the only way they can scale properly; otherwise they'd be using massive amounts of CPU every single second (and thus have a very high electricity bill) -- not to mention could end up being slightly different between encodes, and would break the p2p nature of distribution. -
Inappropriate?I think the people at spotify know what they're doing =) But it is interesting to hear about it, since I'm interested in IT.
Maybe you could add this to the FAQ? Or somewhere on the website.
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