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		jstelly on March 18, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Spotify Pays So Little People make tools to game usage-based rewards in free to play games. They call it "idling". You could hack this by making an idling tool for spotify that would re-stream your tracks when you weren't using spotify.

Spooks on March 18, 2015 [–]

couldn't you do this with a premium account as well?... assuming you can make more than $9 a month from 24/7 listening

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