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Spotify: any song in 200 milliseconds

How Spotify starts any of 100M+ tracks in under 200 ms for 777M monthly users: audio from the device or a CDN edge behind a signed URL, recommendations behind breakers off the play path, and play events counted exactly once with a play ID and event time.

01 · A song on the commute
SQ-07 · Spotify

Tap. Music. Under 200 milliseconds.

Tap a song. It just plays.

Picture your morning commute.