Spotify Teardown: Inside the Black Box of Streaming Music

by Maria Eriksson, Pelle Snickars, Anna Johansson, et al.

Book Overview

An innovative investigation of the inner workings of Spotify that traces the transformation of audio files into streamed experience.

Spotify provides a streaming service that has been welcomed as disrupting the world of music. Yet such disruption always comes at a price. Spotify Teardown contests the tired claim that digital culture thrives on disruption. Borrowing the notion of "teardown" from reverse-engineering processes, in this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262038900
• ISBN13: 9780262038904
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher