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If Watsi or CharityWater were on board, maybe they could write it off as a donation (apple/spotify).

That's likely because MP3 files are smaller than Windows Service packs, and because Spotify is a thing you install yourself.

Also, Spotify is no longer P2P anyway, because it only served as a temporary cost-saving measure.

Then the artists proceed to complain how spotify is screwing them when in fact they screwed themselves signing on major labels.

How is this different than paying Spotify for the ads to go away?

The app wasn't too difficult to implement since Youtube and Spotify have decent APIs I can use.

Why should I buy music from you at a much higher price than paying Spotify $10/m?

There's also the fact that people can view Spotify as a ongoing service easily while people view MS solitaire as a component of a product.

We are totally miffed at how pandora or spotify survive.

I see Apple and Spotify being pissed about this, but being stuck in between a rock and a hard place if it takes off.

MediaMonkey and Spotify have my business.

I had always assumed that the P2P was to help mitigate the cost of data so that the Spotify team could better use their limited (at the time) funds to secure more music contracts.

We are totally miffed at how pandora or spotify survive." Aren't Spotify running at a huge loss?

So did spotify, if they didn't then no one will opt-in not because they care about their "privacy" but because it takes effort and knowledge.

So instead of messing with Spotify's "artist" search, you could just go to Amazon (or Google) and type in "Beethoven's Ninth Bernstein New York Philharmonic" and you'll almost certainly get back the items you want near the top of the list.

- Whether a particular recommended performance is going to be available on Spotify - Whether you can click on the "album" to get the rest of the movements, or whether you just found a standalone track - Whether the "artist" is going to list the composer, the performance group, or one famous performer So it takes a lot of trial and error.

Spotify's P2P usage enabled the amazingly fast response times which made every user's life better on an ongoing basis.

Last summer, Sander Dieleman was working on recommending music based on audio signals, while interning at Spotify.

Spotify took something that previously cost money and made it free with ads.