

I read a bit of Anna’s article and if I remember correctly there are something like 256 million tracks on Spotify. Mind you this includes things like white noise tracks.
But 86 million tracks represent 99.6% of listens or something like that. Most tracks don’t get played much if at all



I suspect it’s not a lack of playtesters that’s the problem, but harsh deadlines and crunch. That type of environment leads to tech debt to get things working fast, which leads to hard-to-manage code, which leads to bugs…