Technology

Although it's far from the best, Deezer has a much fairer royalties compensation method, which is more closely based on a per-user basis, rather than total amount of minutes listened (that Spotify currently employs).

This isn't super related to OPs post but I thought it might be worth mentioning aswell.

I've been using Deezer for a while now. Not only is the streaming quality (FLAC) much better but also the artist compensation much fairer. Plus, they at least act as if they actually cared for the customer...

They suck ass. Stop paying them money.

Thank God for a certain manager. Haven't paid for Spotify in years. Fuck em.

I love how no one mentions that the great success business Spotify got all their starting music from the mp3 warez scene.

Early Spotify songs still had the meta data from those files, including misspelled song names and years of issue.

I already commented somewhere else in this thread, but I've been just buying music via bandcamp and I feel pretty good about it. If I buy about one new album a month for $8, it's cheaper than spotify and after a couple years I have a large library of music I own outright.

This works with my listening habits, which are something like "I have like one new (-to me) album on heavy rotation every couple of weeks". Someone who's more of a "i never listen to the same song twice" extreme wouldn't have as good a time.