Spotify Teardown

Spotify Teardown is a study of Spotify’s inner workings and provides an academic investigation into streaming music. The research was carried out by 5 Swedish academics to show the inner workings of Spotify that traces the transformation of audio files into the streamed experience. Published by MIT Press on the 19th March 2019, the team of five researchers borrowed the notion of ‘teardown from reverse-engineering processes and disassembled Spotify’s product and the way it is […]