What is the hardware physically behind Tidal, Spotify, QoBuz?


Dear Late Night Audiogoners,

I'm calling into the show tonight because I was wondering something you may know about.  What the hardware (and software) look like that allow streaming services to operate. 

Are we talking massive server rooms?  

Is there a physical process involved in getting music into a format to store for streaming?  Do the record companies need to transfer a digital file to the service for streaming? 

-Curious in Chicago
jbhiller

Showing 1 response by shulse01

They will have all moved to the outsourced, hyper-scaling models offered by the one cited above (AWS, Azure, Google, Akamai), and a group of upcomers such as Oracle.  The barriers are low, the capital requirements are huge, and it just makes sense.  On-line video services like Zoom do the exact same thing.