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The Technology Behind Last.fm
CNET's Crave has up a detailed interview with Last.fm's Matthew Ogle, the company's head of Web development. Reader CNETNate notes that Last.fm has streamed 275,000 years of audio around the world. From the interview: "We stream all music directly off our servers in London. We have a cluster of streaming nodes including a bunch of powerful machines with solid-state hard drives. We have a process that runs daily which finds the hottest music and pushes those tracks on to the SSDs streamers that sit in front of our regular platter-based streaming machines. That way, if someone is listening to one of our more popular stations, the chances are really good that these songs are coming off our high-speed SSD machines. They're fast because every song is sitting in memory instead of being on a slow, spinning platter." The interview is actually on two pages but pretends it's on three.
lol
Just replace SCSI & IDE with SSD & Platter and pretend we already did this fight 15 years ago.
I really could not care less what "sheeple" are listening to or how "compatible" their music tastes are to mine. I *know* my musical tastes do not necessarily match up with others, especially when it concerns new popular music. So please explain why should I let others decide what is hot, for me?
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