ISBN10: 0262038900, ISBN13: 9780262038904, [publisher: The MIT Press Feb 2019] Softcover Neuware -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 book a team of five researchers have playfully disassembled Spotify's product and the way it is commonly understood.Spotify has been hailed as the solution to illicit downloading, but it began as a partly illicit enterprise that grew out of the Swedish file-sharing community. Spotify was originally praised as an innovative digital platform but increasingly resembles a media company in need of regulation, raising questions about the ways in which such cultural content as songs, books, and films are now typically made available online.Spotify Teardown combines interviews, participant observations, and other analyses of Spotify's front end with experimental, covert investigations of its back end. The authors engaged in a series of interventions, which include establishing a record label for research purposes, intercepting network traffic with packet sniffers, and web-scraping corporate materials. The authors' innovative digital ...
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ISBN10: 0262038900, ISBN13: 9780262038904, [publisher: The MIT Press Feb 2019] Softcover Neuware -An innovative investigation of the inner workings of Spotify that traces the transformation of audio files into streamed experience.
[Zwiesel, Germany] [Publication Year: 2019]
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