Streaming Characteristics of Spotify Sessions
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Schwind, Anika; Wamser, Florian; Gensler, Thomas; Tran-Gia, Phuoc; Seufert, Michael; Casas, Pedro
- Source
- 2018 Tenth International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX) Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), 2018 Tenth International Conference on. :1-6 May, 2018
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Computing and Processing
Signal Processing and Analysis
Quality of experience
Monitoring
Containers
Streaming media
Servers
Tools
Current measurement
Audio Streaming
Spotify
QoE
Distributed Active Measurements
- Language
- ISSN
- 2472-7814
Internet Service Providers need a thorough understanding of a service to maximize the Quality of Experience (QoE) of their customers by network management. Instead of quantifying the user satisfaction with long and cost-intensive subjective user studies, the QoE can often be estimated with the help of dedicated measurements of application and network parameters. We designed a QoE measurement tool for the popular audio streaming service Spotify that runs inside a Docker software container. The container is able to run headlessly as active measurement probe and emulates a user who is streaming audio files via Spotify. While streaming, network and application parameters are collected that have a high correlation to the user's QoE. The results of the measurements are used to characterize audio streaming in Spotify on application and network layer, and to evaluate important QoE factors.