I have an iPhone, love music, and love Spotify. But although tempted, I've decided I'm not going to upgrade my account to premium in order to use the iPhone app just yet.
Why? Well, I'll tell you. Because...
It's not worth the money.
Paying £10 a month to listen to someone else's music collection is too much. Spotify isn't even as good as borrowing. At no point are you really in possession of the music.
Their collection isn't big enough.
If I'm paying a subscription to hear music, I want unlimited choice. I don't want the nagging worry that the music isn't there. Note: There is no Oasis on Spotify.
The tech isn't reliable.
Spotify is still very new. The desktop client still crashes or loses connection for no reason. The search is worryingly dumb. The automatic update froze my computer.
It isn't social.
OK, so you can send links to playlists to people. But the content isn't truly portable, or embeddable, or shareable on social networks. It just isn't part of my life(stream).
It's free anyway.
I run the free Spotify service on my Mac at home, in my kitchen, plugged into a sound system. This is enough for me. I don't mind the ads. Even the Suitopia one.
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
Spotify: Why I'm not buying
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3 comments:
I'm not really bothered about the posession thing - it's all there for free and I can listen to lots of things I probably wouldn't buy. And I haven't had the tech problems you mention.
But I agree with the collection size and social points you raise.
For me it's just a bit too pricey... Bring it down to c.£6ish and I might be tempted...
Amazing how it has spurred people to share their mental ceiling for such a service. Many people say £4.99...
Not sure what mine is - if the collection was bigger I'd probably lay around a fiver down but it'd be a wrench. Plus I'm planning on ditching the iPhone soon which would change the game again.
I miss Roberta (no really) but the iPhone app def was worth me upgrading for. Especially if you spend enough time on the east Coast mainline with only 15 mins of unbroken mobile broadband coverage.
Has only bailed out on a track once or twice, which am sure will be fixed anyway.
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