Eli5: Why was it so tricky for the early Spotify developers to get a song to play instantly when we already had streaming?

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Eli5: Why was it so tricky for the early Spotify developers to get a song to play instantly when we already had streaming?

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Spotify was built on top of p2p – so it needed someone (which would be Spotify themselves as well) to stream the content from.

https://engineering.atspotify.com/2021/08/four-lessons-we-learned-from-creating-spotifys-desktop-app/

But I don’t remember it being particularly slow myself.