I on the other hand welcome our new music overlords. here's why: <a href="http://paulstamatiou.com/review-spotify-music-on-demand" rel="nofollow">http://paulstamatiou.com/review-spotify-music-on-demand</a><p>I think this is the future.. why worry about maintaining your catalogs and syncing between computers. Let it be online. As for the whole "but i like owning my stuff" argument, I mentioned that in my post. And as for the offline client issue, yeah they're working on it.. I still burn CDs for my car so I'll be interested in how this works out. But I figure in 10-15 years every ipod or other such device you listen to music on, even your car, will be online.. I never want to have to deal with ensuring all my songs have proper and accurate ID3 tag info. If I have to see Track 1, Track 2.. again I'm gonna go apeshit.
I know almost nothing about the music business, but I have always heard that artists make more money touring than by selling albums. If that were the case, I would think that artists would jump at the chance to be played widely in hopes that it would drive consumers to buy tickets for their tours.<p>It seems like two of the arguments (no ownership of the music, no direct compensation for artists) could be made for radio in the earlier portion of the 20th century, yet that vehicle was apparently successful for both the radio stations and the artists.
Should we be afraid that if we get used to Spotify and its business model, then then they will take away music on CDs. And our senses will be dulled so that we don't notice what they've done until it is gone?<p>Our should we just pay homage to the fact that grandpa used to have his music on plastic pieces and could play it even after country music was made illegal by UN?
He makes logical points, but I think that his point that Spotify can't be or do everything we expect from a music player (like play in the car, he says), will make his main concern moot. He says we're giving too much control to Spotify because they can cut off the music supply at any time and they decide what's on the service. That's why spotify will never "take over" the market completely... it can't fulfill all the market needs, just some of them. People will use it, and they'll use other services/products in parallel to fill the need.
I have to say that I love Spotify to bits and can't wait for the offline client to hit the S60, but I do agree that giving control to any one central company is a bad idea, and being in a situation where albums just vanish one day is not good, so I see the poster's problem...