Task

Researching in details the creating and evolution of Spotify app. Going through music listening history, the journey of users while using new devices. At last how Spotify become world’s number 1 music listening platform. Analyzing good and bad design points about the app interface.

Evolution of music listening industry

• Phonograph : It the very first device which provided option to record music and sound. The storage capacity was low but it was still effective at small basis to record only one song at a time. Sound quality was low too.
• Gramophone : The sound quality was good as compared to phonograph. The advantage of it was it could record more than one song.
• Records : Cassette tapes where able to record many songs on single tape.
• CDs : It was very effective cause user now can directly play the required song from the record without listening to the whole tape.
• Walkman : First ever personal music listening device.
• iPod : It was personalized device where user could upload songs directly. The storage was large. Wi-Fi provided the service to connect with the music stores easily. Downloading songs became possible through it.
• Mini Disk : On this device user become able to perform operations like delete , save and many more.
• Napster : First ever music app. It connected internet world to music world. So it become easy to share music all over the world. Digital copies of music started getting stored in one’s personal computer. Then many apps like Napster came before Spotify like MusicBee, LimeWire, Ganna
• Spotify : In 2008 Spotify got launched. By 2011 Spotify became more famous and now currently it became world’s no.1 music listening platform.

Spotify’s interface evolution journey