Many of them play on the browsers and also on home audio systems too. The players are available as mobile apps and as desktop apps. The music players come in various shapes and forms. Let's have a quick look at these players. Though I may focus on music players that are popular in US, there is a booming business in all the world for the local language music. There are many music players that cater to the needs. The sheer numbers makes it enticing for either new businesses to enter streaming music or for the existing music players to strengthen their offerings. There are 68 million paid subscribers to streaming music industry. The total world digital music revenue is $6.7billion.

According IFPI 2016 report, the downloads went down by 10% while streaming revenue went up by 96%. The streaming music is more popular that music downloads. SoundCloud is reported to have 130m tracks (including remixes). There were 317 billion streams (total tracks played by all music systems for all music lovers) in 2015. The advent of internet, the (radical) P2P music sharing apps like napster and the still-evolving internet etiquette on music sharing has created a booming business for music creation, playing, listening and sharing.ĮchoNest concluded that, though island population produces disproportionately more music in the world, there are large number of tracks created by artists worldwide and are made available through streaming systems. Music is proved to have an emotional impact on living beings (including animals and trees). Research shows that music has calming effect on babies and even animals. Music has been an integral part of human being. This blog tries to simplify the conception & development of streaming music system for easy comprehension of a smart designer or product leader). are very complex and were developed over a period of time with the help of smart engineers. The existing music systems like Spotify, SoundCloud, Rdio, Amazon Music, Deezer, Apple Music, Pandora, etc. ( To the readers: This blog is an attempt to design a streaming music system.

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