Looks like we are a minority. Spotify is a lesson about building what people want. Sometimes people just want crap, because free. Sustainability of the model for the musicians and the shitty payments they get is not even taken into account, obviously.

Eh. Spotify is a great service and that is why I pay for it.

It lets me sample new music instantly and organically without needing to pirate anything, and if I really like something, I can buy it and add it to my Plex too. Yes I know that I can probably find the album on certain torrent sites, download it in less than 1 minute, unpack it and then get the song I wanted to listen up and playing.

But that's a hell of a lot of work, compared to just double-clicking the song and having it playing instantly. And if the song sucks, you dont need to keep seeding albums you actually want to delete just to maintain ratios at private trackers, etc etc.

Using Spotify is just so much less hassle. These days I find I use Plex less and less for music, and Spotify pretty much gets used 99.9% of the time.

So I'm curious: What do you think is crap with Spotify?

The Music experience. It's superficial, and it's imprinting in younger generations that music is just another commodity. I'm not making a Luddite statement, just saying that listening to music by proxy without the physical or digital experience of owning the music itself is part of a general depreciation of music making.