I opened Spotify this morning to be greeted by a modal popup with a "sponsored recommendation".
Why am I seeing ads if I'm already paying for the premium plan!? ๐
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Never understood why anyone would want to rent their music in the first place. As good as the service may be when you sign up for it, you know it will eventually turn to shit as they're trying to monetize every last cent out of it, and then your only choices are to endure the shit or to quit the service and be left with nothing.
Convenience, pure and simple.
I used to maintain a gigantic Google Play Music library and used that to listen to music. I also had a hard copy locally and used Winamp.
Then Google killed GPM and there was no real good alternative at the time so I picked up Spotify and got easily hooked on the ability to listen to anything I wanted at any time. No ripping, no uploading, no buying, no hassle, no nothing. I've discovered so much music through the recommendation engine. Some are bigger bands I just hadn't listened to, some are obscure.
But the point is, for the cost of a single CD per month I was able to listen to any CD from any band whenever I wanted. It was an extremely easy decision to sign up.
Yeah but my point is, you pay but you don't actually get those albums. So if after some years Spotify turns to shit you don't have anything to show for when you cancel the service, and even though you have paid the equivalent of dozens of albums your music collection is gone.
Also, I don't buy anyting near an album per month, so even on that level it doesn't make sense to me. I do have a large collection, but I'm not really digging much current music anymore so if I buy two albums per year, it's a lot.
It doesn't sound like it would be a great service to pay for given your needs. But keep in mind these are services, saas, there is no expectation that I, as a customer, will take any of it to the grave with me, and I'm not like... unaware of that fact.
What I get in return is a growing library and the ability to listen to just about anything at no additional cost, some nice features like auto playing similar music after an album or playlist ends, and what I consider a perk of not having a physical or digital library to care for to repurpose that time as I see fit.
Sure, it would be a hugely sad day if Spotify fully fucks me, and there's plenty I don't like. But that risk is built into my decisioning, and the value is absolutely there.