Project Proposal

This project will research and survey the fast-growing music streaming service Spotify. We will discover and identify possible improvements based on different aspects of this multimedia system. Spotify is a popular streaming service and it is a great representation of a multimedia platform. And many of us have been using music streaming services like Spotify or Apple Music for years now. In the past three to four years, the music streaming industry is booming and we have seen lots of updates and changes on Spotify. However, based on our personal experience and feedback from our initial survey, we found out that there are still lots of dissatisfaction and unpleasant user experience on the service.

It would be interesting to look into this platform and discover its ways to represent and deliver multimedia contents. Just as some examples: The music quality is related to audio processing and compression; the cover photos and short videos are related to image and video aspect of the multimedia system; and also integration across platforms, devices and its UI/UX experience improvements.