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Comment by djhworld

I might be misremembering, but I swear when Spotify launched it was a big revelation at the time because the client was super fast and playback was almost instantaneous. This was a big deal as other music players like iTunes were bloated.

Obviously streaming was the big selling point, something that iTunes didn’t offer at the time, but I swear the client was written in some native UI framework, along with the C/C++ library.

Or was the spotify UI always just a browser engine skin and the perception of speed was from the playback engine?

Anyway, cool to see projects like this

parent djhworld 2 months ago

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